Новости за 27.07.2017

Last Friday, when a Palestinian terrorist knocked on her door, entered her house, and started slaughtering her family, Michal Solomon made a swift and silent agreement with her husband, Elad: He will stay behind and fight, she will slip behind the terrorist’s back with her three young children and run upstairs to the room where the couple’s young twins were sleeping. She got to the bedroom, closed the door, and defended it with her body, calling the police with whatever calm she could muster and alerting them to the attack. Читать дальше...

Lilit Marcus is a travel writer, author, journalist, and editor for CNN Travel. She is also a contributing writer for Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, The Guardian, Elle, and, well, the list goes on. Her first book, Save The Assistants, was published by Hyperion. She is obsessed with her cat. And tea. She is fluent in American Sign Language. She is a fourteenth generation North Carolinian. She grew up surrounded by Evangelical Christians. She is childfree by choice. Lilit is the name she chose for herself. Читать дальше...

Everything was dark, except for the neon colors. The stage lights, ranging from violet to orange to electric blue, were matched in luminosity only by the glow sticks on every audience member’s wrist. People headbanged fervently, getting just as lost in the drum solo as Jon Fishman was. Him and the rest of his legendary namesake band, Phish, are currently playing a 13-series run of concerts called Baker’s Dozen in New York City. But this ultimate Phish experience wasn’t happening at Madison Square Garden. Читать дальше...

The Fusion GPS news-for-hire scandal has not only led to the public identification of the source of the “Trump Dossier”—a for-profit company that provides opposition research to whoever could write big checks, which is staffed by four former Wall Street Journal reporters led by Glenn Simpson. The scandal has also lifted the lid off a sewer of corporate information warfare and opposition research that the flailing institutions of the mainstream press now regularly re-package as news, without ever saying where it came from—or who paid for it. 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.

Last Friday, the Egyptian-born American Imam Ammar Shahin took the pulpit at the Islamic Center of Davis, California, to deliver some words to the faithful.

In a small and crowded auditorium at Minshar School of Art in south Tel Aviv, a public reading of a classic text took place earlier this summer. One by one, the school’s new graduates approached the microphone and read a page, sometimes stumbling over a word, sometimes pausing but persevering. The audience of students and guests, sweltering in the late June heat, whooped and clapped. The sense of joy and pride was palpable.

Earlier this month, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable (ICBM), capable of reaching Alaska. It is believed that Pyongyang now has enough nuclear material for up to 30 nuclear weapons, missiles that can easily range U.S. bases and allies in Asia, and, in a couple of years, it will possess an ICBM capable of holding at risk the continental United States. This would make North Korea only the third U.S. adversary (after Russia and China) with the ability to threaten nuclear... Читать дальше...

After a long Diaspora, Mandy Patinkin is returning to Broadway. This is not a drill!