Новости за 25.01.2018

Last January, Donald Trump infamously omitted mention of the Jews from his Holocaust Memorial Day statement, provoking a national scandal and withering criticism from liberals. Today, Jeremy Corbyn, the leftist leader of the U.K. Labour party, released his Holocaust Memorial Day statement—and did the exact same thing.

From the moment he steps into a room, Edwards Buice exudes confident enthusiasm. Whether talking about his love for his home city of Chicago, his conversion to Judaism, the temple in which he has taken a continually active role or his love for his partner, Buice’s relentless flow of pervasive energy pulls at the restraints of merely a dialogue in a coffee shop.

From the moment he steps into a room, Edwards Buice exudes confident enthusiasm. Whether talking about his love for his home city of Chicago, his conversion to Judaism, the temple in which he has taken a continually active role or his love for his partner, Buice’s relentless flow of pervasive energy pulls at the restraints of merely a dialogue in a coffee shop.

Bea Slater was born on May 21, 1927—the day that Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis in Paris to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. “My mother always told me how she was on the delivery table and the doctors were so excited. They were all talking about Lindbergh, not the fact that she was having a baby,” Slater laughed. Looking back on the past 90 years, the day of her birth is something of a symbol of the way she’s lived her life. Now into her tenth decade, her favorite phrase... Читать дальше...

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, Tablet’s podcast, Unorthodox, spoke with Sandy Myers and Desiree Nazarian of Selfhelp, a New York based non-profit dedicated to “maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at risk population through a range or housing, home health care, and social services.”

Regular Tablet readers know that I loathe most Holocaust media for kids: apps that are flippant or misguided; slim, pornographically violent volumes of poetry featuring mental monologues by bloodthirsty Nazis; richly illustrated fables queasily blending history and legend; wide-eyed, manipulative middle-grade weepies; YA novels using the Holocaust as a jumping-off point for teen shapeshifter fantasy. And then there are the horrifying old black-and-white movies we were shown in Hebrew school, spotlighting... Читать дальше...

Babi Yar, a patchwork of ravines outside Kyiv where 33,771 Jews were executed by firing squads on Sept. 29-30, 1941, is the most potent symbol of the “Holocaust by bullets” in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories. Yet more than 75 years after the murder of 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews—a quarter of all Holocaust victims and more than half of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust in the USSR—Babi Yar remains an orphan among the sites of global memory of the Holocaust.

Mindy Raf didn’t have enough time to come out to her mother who passed away ten years ago. But Raf’s one-woman show, NOT THE ONE: A Love Story creates a stage to keep Raf’s dialogue with Kitty Raf alive; a celebration of her mother mixed with an interrogation of how relationship models are evolving in 2018.