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If you’re observant, you can now enjoy your favorite New York meal at Russ & Daughters’ recently opened kosher restaurant at The Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side—on Shabbat.

Every day, at around 5:30 in the evening, a white van loaded with kitchen utensils, cooking ingredients, chairs, tables, and a tent departs on an hour-and-a-half ride across Mexico City towards Bosques de la Reforma, a wealthy enclave on the outskirts of the megalopolis. As soon as it parks on Prolongación, a busy commercial street with heavy traffic, eight people get off the van and work with military efficiency to set up the tent, laying the tables and organizing the chairs in the sidewalk. They do this every weekday... Читать дальше...

This year, a bunch of pretty fantastic celebs will receive stars on the Hollywood walk of fame, including Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent, Arrested Development), Sarah Silverman, Jerry Goldsmith (he composed the Alien and Chinatown and a bunch Star Trek soundtracks and so much more!), and Brett Ratner, the director of The Family Man (a really, really good and heartfelt Christmas movie with Nicholas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, and Jeremy Piven) and the Rush Hour films, which is impossible to turn off once it meets your eyes. Читать дальше...

Sterne [Stars], an East German-Bulgarian co-production that won a major prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and thereafter fell into obscurity, is itself the story of a memory on the brink of oblivion—a movie in which, for a few hours, time stands still before swallowing its protagonists.

“I have more leadership experience than Donald Trump and less skeletons in my closet than Hillary Clinton,” said Tara Indiana, as she announced her run for president  last May in Los Angeles at Dom Com, an annual dominatrix convention. Her campaign slogan was “Whipping American Back Into Shape 1 Middle-Aged White Man at a Time,” and the delivery of her speech included a man with a Trump mask who stood before her as she flogged him and beat him with a paddle, among other things.

During the Holocaust, running could be a means of survival. Now, 74 years after Jews were deported from Rome’s historic ghetto to Auschwitz, two races in the Eternal City will honor the memory of Holocaust victims. On Sunday, Jan. 22, five days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) will honor the Holocaust with “Run for Remembrance: Looking Ahead,” a pair of races during which participants will stop at sites related to the Shoah.