Новости за 24.08.2017

It was the last night of camp, 2011. On the dock of the lake, under the stars, I could just barely make out the faces around me. But I could see the same realization in my cabinmates’ eyes: This was our last night together as a cabin. The next summer, we’d be back as counselors, running our own cabins. We wouldn’t be sitting next to each other at meals, we wouldn’t have a sleepover every night, we wouldn’t be spending every second of camp together, ever again.

Last Saturday night, as observant Jews marked the end of the Sabbath by smelling fragrant herbs—cinnamon, cloves, or in Sephardic tradition, a myrtle branch—a group of cannabis enthusiasts gathered in Denver to bid farewell to the Sabbath bride with a different kind of herb: one that’s only been legal in the state of Colorado for the last five years.

Have you heard of Julius Hertling? Yeah, me neither. I came across his name during one of those sad late-night internet slurps, the equivalent of a bowl of cereal after hours: too tired to consume anything complex or difficult, but too wide awake to just go to bed, you settle for what’s easy and comfortable. For some, that means Zillow, for others YouPorn, and for the saddest of all, Breitbart (or as Gizmodo calls it, “America’s number 1 website for adult virgins”). But for me, that hazy hour means preppy-clothing blogs. 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.

Now, don’t get me wrong—I am all for a good statue removal, whether under the blazing sun or, as in Baltimore and Austin, under cover of darkness. I have always wondered why those of us in Union states have so long colluded in the pretense that Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and other secessionists were heroes, rather than what they obviously were: traitors. And I am down with a sensible renaming, too: John C. Calhoun was a bad man, and there is no reason that, having made a mistake, a school like Yale shouldn’t correct it. Читать дальше...

If you love listening to Unorthodox every week, please consider donating to keep us going for another hundred episodes. We put together a bunch of fun gifts, from tote bags to studio visits to a Sept. 6 cocktail party in New York City with Mark, Liel, and Stephanie.

I have seen more memorials to dead Jews in the last two weeks than I have in the last 49 years.

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.