Новости за 06.07.2017

A book of drawings of leafy plants, astrological signs, and naked ladies might sound like something you’re more likely to find in a college dorm room rather than in one of the world’s finest collections of rare books. But that’s where you’ll find the Voynich Manuscript: in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, which is only right for what may very well be the source of one of the literary world’s longest-running mysteries.

When Moshe Holtzberg was two years old, Islamic terrorists stormed into the Nariman Chabad house in Mumbai where he was living with his parents. His father, Gavriel, and his mother, Rivka, six months pregnant, were murdered; Moshe was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuels, who grabbed him and ran out of the house.

The same way your parents carted you off as a kid to Ramah or Habonim Dror wherever so they could take a vacation without you, Jewcy is doing its own sort of summer camp (minus the bad food and regrettable hookups): a residency right here at Tablet.

In the early summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. The First Lebanon War—as it would later be called—would ultimately lead to thousands of casualties, an 18-year-long Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon, and growing political disillusionment. In a way, it ushered in a new era in Israel, one in which the necessity of wars was publicly doubted, and leaders’ intentions were questioned and scrutinized.

Tuesday, North Korea successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of reaching the continental United States. One day later, Pyongyang announced yet a further advance in its nuclear program, allowing its missiles to withstand the extreme heat and pressure upon re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. In response, the top American military commander in South Korea declared that the United States was prepared for war.

Faster than you can say “Gal Gadot,” news broke in Israel yesterday that Omri Casspi, the first Landsmann to play in the NBA, has signed a one-year deal with the reigning champions, the mighty Golden State Warriors. As if on cue, the purveyors of national pride went into production mode, putting out stories celebrating Casspi’s resilience: after eight unremarkable years and five listless teams, he was finally where he belonged, shoulder to shoulder with Kevin Durant and Steph Curry.

Faster than you can say “Gal Gadot,” news broke in Israel yesterday that Omri Casspi, the first Landsmann to play in the NBA, has signed a one-year deal with the reigning champions, the mighty Golden State Warriors. As if on cue, the purveyors of national pride went into production mode, putting out stories celebrating Casspi’s resilience: after eight unremarkable years and five listless teams, he was finally where he belonged, shoulder to shoulder with Kevin Durant and Steph Curry.

Four years ago Adelle Waldman published The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., managing to produce the best of the “literary young man in Brooklyn” bildungsromans by elegantly eviscerating the very genre. Nate, her hero, is a Baltimore transplant to Brooklyn, a writer on the make. On a date with an on-again-off-again girlfriend, he finds himself “transfixed” in his “distaste” of how “the skin underneath [her arms] jiggled a bit.” Waldman’s ability to voice, with humiliating precision, the clinical harshness of Nate’s judgments of women... Читать дальше...

Is every day still Color War for you, even though you’re an adult and have been for two or three or four decades? Do you still miss that magical time in the bunk with your camp friends? Then drop us a note at letters@tabletmag.com, and tell us your absolute best (or worst) camp stories. We want to hear how you met the person who would eventually become your spouse, how you found your calling in life by signing up to perform in the camp talent show, or how you just couldn’t shake the memory of that meanie who bullied you all summer. Читать дальше...

I am a professor of Jewish History in North Carolina, and I find it very discouraging that so few young academics, particularly tenured ones, in Jewish Studies are willing to speak out against Jewish Voice for Peace’s ideology and their increasingly vitriolic tactics. I am calling on my colleagues who believe that dialog and justice are not incompatible with Zionism to recognize Jewish Voice for Peace’s demagoguery.