Новости за 13.07.2017

Who’s to blame when a group of savages take innocent people hostage, commit atrocities, and spur the forces of civilization to strike back, sparking a conflict that, regrettably, claims the lives of more innocent people? If you’ve followed the way the international community—that mythical body of self-appointment bureaucrats who see themselves as everyone’s moral betters—has dealt with Israel, you know the answer by now. To organizations like Amnesty International, the real culprits are never... Читать дальше...

The Chicago Cubs famously went 108 years without winning a World Series championship, but few know about their other over-a-century-long streak. The ballpark has been a kosher food desert ever since its opening 103 years ago. But sit-tight for this rain delay—the drought is finally over. Wrigley Field is getting kosher food.

Futuristic is one way to describe Bliss Lau; another is avant-garde. Delicate, linear and architectural, it’s the kind of jewelry everyone asks about when you wear. And the same adjectives could be applied to its eponymous maker. From her body chains to her rings, she telegraphs sex, style and sophistication.

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.

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.

This week on Unorthodox, we talk Birthright, Hobby Lobby, and Jay-Z.

Our Jewish guest is historian Jenna Weissman Joselit, whose latest book is Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments. She tells us how the Ten Commandments, which have become so politicized, were actually once a unifying force in America, and dishes on the 19th-century drama over a Lower East Side synagogue’s stained-glass depiction of the Decalogue. Then she tests us on whether we can list all Ten Commandments from memory. Читать дальше...

Comrade Mamet has committed a thought-crime.

When the playwright announced that he will fine venues that stage post-show discussions of his plays $25,000 per talk, the kommissars of the moronic left arose to denounce his transgression. An artist? Exercising control over his creation? And applying economic principles to safeguard said control? That’s heresy! And besides, if we don’t follow up dramatic performances by panels of politruks, how are audience members even to understand that... Читать дальше...

Some great books, like some sublime human experiences, defy description. How would you speak of making love, say, or of lying on the grass in the spring, watching the sky with heavy eyes? There’s no good approach, really: You could try being a pedant and risk robbing the moment of its charms, or you could turn to metaphor and risk draining it of specificity. The same is true of our darkest hours; they, too, pull on us precisely because they lie in the shadows, just outside the reach of our language. Читать дальше...

Calling all Jews and honorary Jews of New York City!

Please join us Tuesday, July 25 at 7:30pm at JCC Manhattan for a live recording of Unorthodox with two very special guests: Haroon Moghul, author of the new memoir How to be a Muslim: An American Story, and Harry Enten, senior political analyst and podcaster at FiveThirtyEight!

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