Новости за 13.02.2017

On Thursday, local leaders and residents gathered at a Muslim school in Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, to speak out against President Trump’s now suspended immigration ban, which barred nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and Africa, including Syria, from entering the U.S. “As Muslims we care for this nation and its citizens just as much as anyone else,” said Imam Abdullah Hakim to a room filled with members of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities, and more. Читать дальше...

After much hoopla, the Bank of Israel recently announced that two new Israeli banknotes will be issued shortly. They’re part of a new series highlighting renowned 20th century Israeli poets whose life and work parallel the birth of the State of Israel and the fulfillment of the Zionist dream: A portrait of Rachel Bluwstein (Rachel the Poetess) will grace the new 20-Shekel note, and Leah Goldberg will appear on the 100 NIS. This series—a welcome change from the previous series featuring Israeli... Читать дальше...

Last week, while New York City was getting snowed in, an old brownstone synagogue was pulsing with activity. On Thursday, about 100 people—from hipsters to Hasids—came from far and wide to warm up at Congregation Kol Israel (CKI) in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, and to participate in an ancient and ever-popular Jewish tradition: baking challah.

A professional women’s tennis event got off to a weird and shocking start over the weekend in Hawaii, when a local opera singer took the mic to sing the German national anthem for one of the competitors, Andrea Petkovic. But instead of singing an updated version of the song, he sang an outdated stanza last used by the Nazis, “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,” or “Germany, Germany above all else.”

On Sept. 20, 2016, French police announced the arrest of Anne-Diana Clain, 41, her husband, Mohamed Moujid Amri, and their eldest child, aged 16, at the Paris Roissy Airport, where they had been repatriated by Turkish police after being detained at the Turkish-Syrian border. A few days later, the three adults were charged with terrorist conspiracy and jailed. The family’s three younger children were handed over to social services. They were the last known free members of the Clain clan, led by Fabien Clain... Читать дальше...

Among the countless heartbreaking images that came out of the earthly inferno of Aleppo, one remains particularly haunting: that of a grief-stricken mother cradling the lifeless body of her child emerging out of the rubble and raising her face to the heavens in a deafening cry of despair. The human tragedy in the war-ravaged Syrian city mercilessly bombarded by Russian jets operating in the service of Bashar Assad was so disturbing because it was so familiar. Invoking nearly identical scenes of anguish from Picasso’s Guernica... Читать дальше...