Новости за 21.08.2017

Chicago has long been home to one of America’s largest and most thriving Jewish communities, a vibrant and nurturing setting that gave the nation everyone from Saul Bellow to Julius Rosenwald, the founder of Sears.

The only antifas in America ever to have done anything useful were the original ones, back in the 1920s and ’30s. Those were the people in Carlo Tresca’s faction of Italian-American trade unionism (on the libertarian syndicalist side), who took to rioting anti-fascistically in the aftermath of Mussolini’s March on Rome, in 1922. Punching fascists in the Italian-American neighborhoods of the 1920s and ’30s was a reasonable thing to do because, once Mussolini had become the leader of Italy, Italian-American... Читать дальше...

The most influential writer in Israel’s history, arguably, isn’t Amos Oz or David Grossman or A.B. Yehoshua—it’s Arthur Finkelstein. The political strategist, who died this weekend at 72, was the author of a four-word campaign slogan that delivered Benjamin Netanyahu his 1996 victory and changed Israeli politics and culture forever.

Accused by the Department of Labor of paying its Hispanic warehouse employees significantly less and refusing to promote them, the photography megastore B&H agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle the claims.

Today, from 9:05 a.m. Pacific Time to 4:09 Eastern, the United States will be treated to a solar eclipse for the first time in 38 years. And while we’ll all be looking up to glimpse the celestial wonder, anyone harboring ill-will towards the Jews better beware: a solar eclipse is a very bad omen for anti-Semites.

Jerry Lewis is considered a comic genius in France. It’s a punchline I remember hearing over and over again growing up, a statement both of pride and deprecation: the French? Those chain-smoking existentialist intellectual beret wearers who think they’re so fancy? Look who they think is funny! Jerry freaking Lewis, shouting “Hey laaaadeeee”! So maybe Americans aren’t so stupid after all!

Until my early adulthood, I had no family names or faces to connect with the Holocaust. I always assumed that, on my father’s side, any members of his extended Lithuanian family who didn’t manage to escape their shtetls for America or elsewhere had become victims of the Nazis. Unexpectedly, though, the first time I had confirmation in writing about my family’s connection to the Holocaust came from my mother’s side of the family—the Sephardic side.