Новости за 13.04.2017

The Trump Administration’s strikes last week on the Shayrat airfield to punish Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for using sarin gas divided the political establishment—not the left from the right, but the mainstream from the fringe. The divide is less about policy than about America’s role in the world.

The Trump Administration’s strikes last week on the Shayrat airfield to punish Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for using sarin gas divided the political establishment—not the left from the right, but the mainstream from the fringe. The divide is less about policy than about America’s role in the world.

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In May, Judy Blume will be awarded the E.B. White Award, a lifetime achievement award for children’s literature that comes with a $10,000 prize, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Blume, 79, is prolific, having penned nearly 30 books for readers of all ages.

Is it Shavuot yet? Nope, not even close. It’s still Passover, and over at Jewcy we’re craving anything but Seder leftovers. Luckily, we have the scoop on an ice cream recipe that will cleanse your palate—plus, it’s dairy-free.

When Marla and Jay Osborn began to dig into their family roots and search for traces of Jewish history in the small Ukrainian town of Rohatyn, they had no idea that the people of the town had already done much of the digging themselves–literally.

When Marla and Jay Osborn began to dig into their family roots and search for traces of Jewish history in the small Ukrainian town of Rohatyn, they had no idea that the people of the town had already done much of the digging themselves–literally.

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Michael Oren is an eminent American historian and Zionist who became the Israeli emissary to the United States during Barack Obama’s presidency. An undergraduate at Columbia and a graduate student at Princeton, where he received his doctorate, he later held three distinguished visiting professorships, at Georgetown, Yale, and Harvard. He knows America well— very well. Oren is now a member of the centrist party Kulanu in the Knesset: He has been designated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Читать дальше...

The only person ever to admonish me to do something specific to “become a proper Jew” was my husband’s Aunt Rachel of Queens, New York. By then my conversion to Judaism was a few years old. Having moved from Germany, my husband Harry and I had made a nice Jewish life for ourselves as graduate students at the University of Chicago, replete with kosher kitchen and attending services at our local Hillel.