Новости за 12.07.2017

You can’t help but wonder what studio time with the Haim sisters is like. Especially when the studio is primarily their parents’ living room in their San Fernando Valley childhood home. It could quite easily be a recipe for disaster. But listening to their sophomore studio album, “Something To Tell You,” released last week, it’s hard to imagine that it was anything but pure harmony. There couldn’t possibly be room for sibling rivalry to ensue when the result is 11 songs, totaling 42 soulful minutes... Читать дальше...

When the nurse asked Roy if he wanted to have his stem cells blessed by a chaplain, we laughed it off, even though the nurse, who dealt with stem cell transplants on a daily basis, looked puzzled about what we might be laughing about. She asked again a few hours later if we wanted a blessing, and then about a half hour before the infusion was going to happen, she became more urgent. If we were to get the chaplain to be there before the cells arrived, we would have to notify him now. This time Roy and I... Читать дальше...

Being British, Indian, part-Hindu, and part-Jewish, you’d think Anish Kapoor would have enough colors to deal with. Apparently not: The world-famous artist, in a rather bold way, has just claimed a new color. Last year, Kapoor purchased the exclusive rights to VantaBlack, the blackest black on earth, making it his and entirely his alone. Which, of course, spurred an all-out color war.

This summer we’re bringing you daily posts from our sister site, Jewcy.com, edited by Gabriela Geselowitz. You can find more from Jewcy here.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel last week was hailed an historic achievement for Israeli diplomacy, and a sign that the Jewish state is perhaps less isolated than it’s ever been. Modi is a right-wing religious nationalist, but his leadership of the world’s largest democracy—and nearly 20 percent of the human race—balanced out at least some of the queasiness over his apparent “bromance” with Netanyahu. Unlike the budding relationship with India, strong ties with Rwanda are not a strategic necessity for Israel... Читать дальше...

They say when you have a near death experience there’s a bright light guiding you down a long tunnel. If you’re a New Yorker, that tunnel may be a subway tunnel. And the light may be hidden behind a haze of garbage smoke. At least it was for me. Which is to say, the infamous A train that recently lurched off the rails and broke in half? I was there.

Books disappear, are lost, or are overlooked for many different reasons. Even books that meet with wide acclaim upon publication can end up relegated to the shadow life of specialized scholarship, or the dreaded moniker of a “classic” that few read. H.G. Adler’s 1955 study, Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community falls somewhere between these two categories, and curiously so. Universally praised when it first appeared, and published in a second edition just five years later,... Читать дальше...

There are joyous liberations. Of Paris in 1944, for example—a liberation insurrectionary and exultant. And then there are leaden liberations: Warsaw’s in 1944; Berlin’s in 1945; and, more recently, Sarajevo’s.

When she first entered college, Shira Rosenblum had no intention of taking up archery. Instead, she tried out for Brandeis’s a cappella group. She didn’t get in. Next, she applied to be a Research Assistant. She was rejected. The following year, she heard that the campus archery club was meeting in her building. Having dabbled in the sport as a kid, she decided to drop by. The coach told her that there were no tryouts and anyone could just walk on to the team. This proved appealing. “I thought... Читать дальше...