Новости за 20.10.2016

Earlier this month, The Atlantic announced the appointment of longtime reporter Jeffrey Goldberg as its 14th editor-in-chief. As the publication’s press release noted, Goldberg has written 11 cover stories for the magazine, and interviewed an impressive array of world leaders, including President Obama, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Britain’s David Cameron, Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Jordan’s King Abdullah.

There’s good news and bad news coming out of the elimination of the Toronto Blue Jays from the 2016 MLB playoffs. Good news: The current belt-holders of “Most Annoying Fans in Baseball” have been banished back to downing Molsons and cheering for the Maple Leafs (or whatever they do up there). Bad news: Jewish Blue Jays Kevin Pillar and Scott Feldman have left with them. But fear not! Joc Pederson, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Jewish-enough wunderkind outfielder, masher of baseballs, is still left to carry the torch. Читать дальше...

(Funko)

The way I feel about the appeal of The Golden Girls is the same as I (and others) do about ice cream or pizza: If you meet someone that doesn’t like ’em, don’t trust that person. It turns out I’m not the only one who loves Rose, Dorothy, Blanche, and Sophia this much. At New York’s Comic Con earlier this month, a company named Funko sold out of their action figures of the foursome immediately. The same happened through retailer Target, which sold out of their shipments of a few thousand in less than 24 hours. Читать дальше...

Phil Chess was born Fiszel Czyż in 1921 in Czestochowa, Poland. He lived with his father, Yasef, his mother Cyrla, his sister Malka, and his brother, Lejzor (Leonard), in a small town called Motal—a shetl with no running water or electricity. “That was blues all the time,” Chess once said. In 1928 the Jewish family immigrated to Chicago. Reported the New York Times:

This autumn, with politics on everyone’s mind, Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE) decided to do something a little different for Sukkot. Explained Rachel Timoner, the synagogue’s rabbi, “Given the current national conversation, I was thinking about the fact that a sukkah has a dual message. It represents safety and protection, but also vulnerability. It’s a temporary shelter—a place for gathering with friends and community and sharing food—but also evidence that all of us are vulnerable... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, Robert Zimmerman gets a Nobel Prize.

Our Jewish guest is David Kaufman, editor in chief of Alexa, the luxury magazine of the New York Post, and editor of the newspaper’s Travel and Home/Real Estate sections. He just got back from visiting Amar’e Stoudemire and his family in Jerusalem, and he tells us why moving to laid-back Israel was a relief for the former New York Knick.

Continue reading "On Unorthodox, Jack Daniels' In-House Historian and ‘New York... Читать дальше...

On a list of the most important historical episodes of the 20th century, the Suez Crisis of 1956 wouldn’t make the top 10, or even the top 20. Insofar as it was a war, it was a fizzle: Israel invaded Egypt with a small force, conquered some of the Sinai desert, and then gave it back a few months later. As a diplomatic incident, Suez was more significant, altering the balance of power between Britain, France, and the United States. But it hardly compares to a major Cold War confrontation like the Cuban Missile Crisis of a few years later... Читать дальше...