Новости за 14.11.2017

Two Black men, Zidan and Abdoul, pose in front of an image of two Africans rendered in graffiti on a cement Tel Aviv wall. “When people think about Africans, they usually have the notion that we are all like the graffiti figures behind us: Spear in one hand and a bone stuck to our head,” the men say. “We hope that, one day people, will see us the way we really are and not in a preconceived way.”

The other week, when news broke out that Nihad Awad, Executive Director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was honored with Harvard University’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Award, Hillel International took the unusual step of writing a letter to Harvard’s president to protest.

Screenshop is a new application that’s being hailed as Shazam for fashion, allowing users to create an online shopping list just by capturing a screenshot of an outfit they like. It was co-founded by Mark Fishman and Molly Hurwitz, two Brooklyn-based Orthodox entrepreneurs. It’s CTO is Jonathan Caras, a Jerusalem-based computer scientist. And its investor, ambassador, and spirit animal is Kim Kardashian.

New York City is known for its unexpected encounters, from subway meet-cutes to celebrity spottings. In an ongoing speaker series for the Museum of the City of New York, journalist Sarah Maslin Nir hopes to recreate these “only-in-New-York” moments and the conversations that arise from them. Nir’s latest event is this evening’s “Faith in the Five Boroughs,” during which she’ll lead a rabbi, an imam, and a pastor in a discussion of religious tolerance.

You might be familiar with Patreon, an online platform which enables users to pledge monthly donations to support their favorite artists, podcasters, and other content creators. You’re probably not familiar with its evil twin, Hatreon. Founded in response to moves by sites like Patreon and Kickstarter to crack down on hateful individuals, Hatreon provides the same tools to far-right bigots with none of the oversight. And in a few short months, it has been wildly successful.

You might be familiar with Patreon, an online platform which enables users to pledge monthly donations to support their favorite artists, podcasters, and other content creators. You’re probably not familiar with its evil twin, Hatreon. Founded in response to moves by sites like Patreon and Kickstarter to crack down on hateful individuals, Hatreon provides the same tools to far-right bigots with none of the oversight. And in a few short months, it has been wildly successful.

If the shtetl characters in a Chagall painting jumped into a time-machine and transported themselves to a Jerusalem shuk, they would fit perfectly into Monger by the brilliant Israeli choreographer Barak Marshall. “Dance in Israel often reflects the cultural interest to shy away from history and only reflect the nature of the ‘New Jew’,” Marshall told me. “I reject this completely—I mine the richness of my Jewish culture in my work, embrace its complexity, and hide nothing.”

Denis was an eccentric and possibly a hypocrite. He hated cell-phone culture, despised Facebook and Twitter and any other solipsistic form of communication. But, almost paradoxically, he seemed to live his life in order to tell the story of it. He seemed to pursue experiences that padded the mythology he had created for himself. He spent a year in an apprenticeship with a sumo wrestler; he lied to a Mormon family, pretending to be on a quest for spiritual enlightenment in exchange for a free room... Читать дальше...

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

For the best web series you’ll see today, consider a tale of young Jews navigating love and lust succinctly entitled Roxy and Eli Date the Shit Out of New York City. Jewcy is pumped to host the virtual premiere right here! Right now!