Новости за 19.12.2016

This year has continued its grisly and merciless death march straight to the end, claiming yet another seeming indestructible victim: Zsa Zsa Gabor, the socialite, media personality, convict, and sometimes actress who delighted the world with her talk show witticisms and colorful personal life died Sunday in Los Angeles of heart failure after years of ill health. She is survived by her eighth or ninth or possibly tenth husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, which is a mesmerizing sentence to write. Читать дальше...

Critics of Richard Spencer—the white supremacist, alt-right leader who dreams of an “ethno-state“—are making their voices heard in Whitefish, Montana, where Richard Spencer and his mother, Sherry, take up residence. Sherry Spencer, a local business owner, told an ABC affiliate recently that the backlash towards her son, has forced her to consider selling her mountain resort property, which she sublets. Leading the anti-hate charge in Whitefish is an organization called Love Lives Here, which has... Читать дальше...

A decade-plus of Catholic school in Texas will teach you a lot. It certainly taught me about spirituality and humanity, the power of prayer and our capacity for compassion. It also taught me to leave room for the Holy Ghost when I dance and how to properly hike up a below-the-knee hem on a plaid skirt. But there was one lesson that Sister Maxie and Father Gus didn’t cover, for it was a lesson that could only be taught by the half-Jewish, half-Christian boy of my dreams from TV. And this is the lesson of Hanukkah. Читать дальше...

“If I become president, we’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you,” Donald Trump promised more than a year ago. Well, he is not president quite yet; but the first Christmas of the Trump era is just around the corner, and, so far, this looks like one campaign promise that is not going to be kept. The use of “Happy Holidays” as an all-purpose December greeting is just too habitual in America to be banished by presidential edict. Indeed, Trump himself recently sent out... Читать дальше...

In Macedonia—both the Balkan state and the northern section of Greece—leeks grow as plentifully as onions, so there are many leek dishes from this region. In particular, Jews from Macedonia wax nostalgic about leek kofta, as these patties are known locally, made with lamb, beef, or potatoes and cheese.