Новости за 21.07.2017

The Israeli government set off a firestorm this week when it announced, in response to a Supreme Court petition, that it was opposed to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. The announcement drew widespread scorn,
not least for the reasoning that adoption by same-sex couples would place an “additional burden” on the children in question. Same-sex couples have officially been able to adopt in Israel since 2008, but the welfare services prioritize straight couples and make the process... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump, Jr. appears to be the latest figure in President Donald Trump’s inner circle to be caught in the giant web of the Great Kremlin Conspiracy. Trump the younger said he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, but that all he got in his June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer was an earful about dropping the Magnitzky Act, which sanctions Russian officials involved in the death of a Russian lawyer who was killed in detention.

It all started with The Dress. Visiting the Oakland Museum’s delightful exhibit on the history of California, I spotted a glorious concoction of pale green silk and tiers of ecru lace. The low-cut, ruched bodice dipped into a tea-length skirt trimmed with tiny red silk flowers. The text next to it read, “’La Estrellita’ capitalized on the Californian craze for the ‘Spanish Fantasy Past’ in the 1910s. Born Stella Hurting [sic] in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a Jewish theater family, Estrellita began as a racy dancer in the U.S. vaudeville circuits... Читать дальше...

When Emma Lazarus wrote “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” she had no idea it would eventually emblazon the Statue of Liberty, and she never found out: Her poem was erected on the figure 16 years after her death. She only intended for “The New Colossus” to be a fundraising effort for the pedestal of the statue. But it’s more than fitting that the words of the poet and activist were immortalized as an American trope. Lazarus worked tirelessly to make... Читать дальше...

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.

On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League released a guide to leaders of the “alt-right” and “alt-lite,” bigoted conspiratorial movements that have picked up steam in the Trump era. Among those individuals identified were Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, two prominent purveyors of online misinformation.

When you go to film school—as I’m told I once did, though it’s all a bit of a blur now—you’re eventually introduced to the work of George Romero. And because film schools, like all schools these days, are often intensely politicized, you’re taught that Romero matters because his work is a biting critique of America’s ideological ills, particularly the intersections of late capitalism and rampant imperialism.

Other visitors might have been surprised to see me, a Reform-turned-secular alumna of a pluralistic Jewish day school in Texas, showing up in Brooklyn—wearing a modest black shell top and ankle-length skirt, fresh out of the packaging—at a Holocaust museum created by Orthodox Jews in an Orthodox community. But I was the one who was surprised when I left the museum having found it more resonant for me than any number of other Holocaust museums I’d visited.