Новости за 15.03.2017

Adam Krief, a Jewish father of three from Los Angeles who was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer in July, died on Tuesday at the age of 32 following complications from a bone-marrow transplant. Although he found a bone marrow match in December, his body ultimately rejected it.

Adam Krief, a Jewish father of three from Los Angeles who was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer in July, died on Tuesday at the age of 32 following complications from a bone marrow transplant. Although he found a bone marrow match in December, his body ultimately rejected it.

In May, activist Rasmea Odeh will go on trial for a second time for allegedly omitting her 1970 conviction for a deadly Jerusalem bombing from two separate U.S. immigration and citizenship applications. Although she spent a decade in an Israeli prison for her involvement in a bombing that killed two Hebrew University students in 1969—the result of a trial that a Red Cross observer deemed fair—her profile in the U.S. has been rising lately. She was one of eight signatories of a letter announcing the March 8 women’s strike... Читать дальше...

If you’re seeking a way to connect—or reconnect—to Judaism, Arq might be what you’re looking for.

Team Israel’s unlikely adventure in the World Baseball Classic came to an end today in Tokyo. Facing two-time WBC champions Japan, who were undefeated and ranked 1st coming into the tournament, Israel fell 8-3. The loss officially eliminated them from the competition’s second round, where they went 1-2, beating Cuba but losing to the Netherlands and finally Japan.

“History moves in cycles,” Camille Paglia writes in the introduction to Free Women, Free Men, a new collection of her writing on sex and feminism. Reading her work of the last quarter-century, it is indeed remarkable how everything old has become new again. Rape on college campuses, sexual harassment, political correctness: These issues are headline news today, just as they were when Paglia emerged as a major public voice in the early 1990s. And Paglia’s views on these subjects remain as incendiary as ever. Читать дальше...

I felt a little daring as I went out alone last weekend—in a leopard-print dress and red lipstick—to a dimly lit boîte to experience Lavender Songs: A Queer Weimar Berlin Cabaret. Sans spouse or spawn, I sat solo at my own little table in the back of the room and ordered a gin and tonic. It was served to me in a wine glass; the show had sold out and the club had run out of tumblers. “Classy, no?” the handsome waiter said with a dimpled smile as he set my drink down. It felt right.

In 2006, the United Nations created the Human Rights Council, intended to replace its corrupt Human Rights Commission. The Commission had been infamous for its all-star membership of abusive dictatorships and authoritarian regimes, who used the body not to protect human rights, but to protect their violations of them. The Human Rights Council was meant to change all that. But on the eve of its opening, The New York Times called on President George W. Bush to reject the council, charging that its... Читать дальше...