Новости за 13.03.2017

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who wrote a heartbreaking and extraordinarily moving Modern Love column that was published in The New York Times less than two weeks ago, died on Monday at 51. If you’ve not read it yet, do so now. It made me cry the first time around, and it is all the more poignant today.

The volatility of politics in the United States and Europe, the rise of authoritarian ideologies and governments, the ferocity of the debates about immigration and difference, the new faces of anti-Semitism and xenophobia: These momentous and unsettling developments have enormous implications for Jews in the West. How should American Jewry make sense of these changes? What are the dangers they pose to Jewish values and Jewish interests? Is anti-Semitism on the rise, and why? Is European Jewry in peril? Читать дальше...

Feminist comedian and actress Jenny Slate is one of my favorite celebrities. Her voice is forever immortalized in my head as Marcel the Shell; her 2014 comedy Obvious Child is one of my favorite films; and I think that her ridiculous role on Parks and Recreation as the absurdly JAPpy and overall insane twin sister of Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, Mona-Lisa, is one of the best characters to have been created for contemporary television. (It was also my Halloween costume last year.)

Esteemed historian and National Jewish Book Award winner Jenna Weissman Joselit joins Tablet this week as a contributor. She’ll be writing for us once a month—in her signature nimble, quirky, and energetic style—about forgotten and overlooked chapters in American Jewish history.

This week’s episode of Girls, “Gummies,” was reminiscent of Broad City Season 2 Episode 3, “Wisdom Teeth,” when Abbi gets her wisdom teeth removed, then accidentally gets high on a double dose of pain medication and a weed milkshake, sneaks out of her apartment, and hallucinates a giant version of her prized stuffed animal Bingo Bronson. After getting notified that Abbi has made unusual charges on her credit card, a frantic Ilana finds her about to spend more than a thousand dollars at the Gowanus Whole Foods. Читать дальше...

I generally don’t feel well in a museum until I’ve drifted through its highly surveilled architectonic labyrinth and followed the exit sign back outside. Indeed, the nicest part of my visit to the Broad, Los Angeles’ latest attempt at a world-class modernist treasure hoard, was the time I spent out on the museum’s spacious lawn, where I could sip a $5 iced coffee through a green straw, compulsively checking and rechecking my iPhone and reviewing the many selfies I’d just shot inside the museum in front of legendary paintings by Andy... Читать дальше...

A sunny yellow cab darts and weaves amid an armada of glum, black utility vehicles, catching my eye. As I stand on a street in the very heart of Manhattan, I can see it coming a mile away, which is the point, after all. Its bright, snappy exterior makes the vehicle pop. The use of yellow as a distinguishing mark is a fairly recent phenomenon, mandated by New York’s municipal authorities only in 1967; previously, cabs came in many hues, red and lavender among them. Although there’s something to... Читать дальше...