Новости за 27.10.2016

Jeopardy!, a game show for the ages that we’ve all watched with our grandparents, bless ’em, is still fresh. And how can it not be? It’s got Alex Trebek, a master of his craft, and it’s a competition of knowledge quickness, which will never go out of style. (And that sleek blue coloring is easy on the eyes too.) Couple this with Drake, the most popular rapper on the planet, Jewish or otherwise, and you’ve got sure-fire entertainment.

Texas-based screamer, Infowars founder, and Donald Trump enthusiast Alex Jones has been spinning conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds for some time now, but the talk radio host’s anti-Semitism reached ever greater levels of non-subtlety this week.

On Wednesday, the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers announced it would be erecting a statue in the coming years dedicated to Symon Petliura, a Ukrainian soldier and statesman who fought for the country’s independence from Russia, Poland, and Germany. The politics of the construction—and destruction—of Soviet-era monuments in Ukraine continues to rage unabated as the nation carries on with the process of decommunization and the building of a truly post-Soviet identity. The construction of Ukrainian... Читать дальше...

This election season, we’re hearing a lot about how horrible the people who aren’t like us are. Refugees are talked about as rapists, murderers, terrorists, poisoned Skittles. But the photo of a tiny boy in Syria sitting in the back of an ambulance, covered in blood and dust and staring blankly into space, was everywhere. So was the picture of a fully clothed toddler washed up on a beach in Turkey. No matter how we try to protect our own children, they’re seeing images like these. And given our... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, Bar Refaeli gets pixelated.

Our Jewish guest is filmmaker and anthropologist Noam Osband, who profiled Baruch Marzel, one of the leaders of Israel’s far-right—and a distant relative of Osband’s—for his latest documentary, The Radical Jew. He tells us what surprised him most about the 57-year-old political firebrand, and plays us a song about puppies on his ukulele.

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