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In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’ Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people.

This presentation was delivered on January 30, 2018, at a special program marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, “Preventing Atrocities in the 21st Century: Seven Decades after the Holocaust, How Can the World Prevent Future Atrocities,” at the Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America.

If you thought that Spotify gathering your data every time you listen to that Britney Spears song was invasive enough, now you’ll have to think twice before you order a beer on tap at your local bar. A database may, in fact, be registering all sorts of details related to your order.

If 2017 was Hollywood’s year of Gal Gadot, 2018 may yet be Broadway’s year of Shiri Maimon.
According to initial reports, come September the Israeli pop star is set to star as Roxie Hart in
Kander and Ebb’s Chicago, Broadway’s second longest-running musical. Very few Israelis have
made the transatlantic leap from Dizengoff Street to the Great White Way; Chaim Topol’s Tevye
and Dudu Fisher’s Jean Valjean are the rare exceptions. Maimon, who first captured Israeli
hearts a decade... Читать дальше...

There couldn’t have been a more tragic finale in 1920 Bohemian Paris than the end of Amadeo Modigliani’s life. Modigliani was 35 years old and had already memorialized the thick mane of his lover Jeanne Hébuterne’s waist-long hair in numerous paintings and drawings in his mannered and elegant late style. Hébuterne was 21 and about to give birth to their second child. Suffering from acute kidney pain, coughing and spitting blood, Modigliani lay in bed and an already grieving Hébuterne huddled by... Читать дальше...

Even when they first started playing teenage bar gigs in Manhattan in 1999, the Strokes were already a throwback to a cultic time when rock bands offered meaning to tight-knit groups of believers who studied liner notes and publicity stills with Talmudic intensity and argued the minute differences in the inflection of individual notes in live and recorded versions of songs. The Strokes were A students. They mimicked the Velvet Underground, of course, with dashes of Oasis and the Stones, while practicing Axl Rose’s snake dance in the mirror. Читать дальше...

Tu B’Shevat is many things: Ancient tax festival, kabbalistic celebration of nature, communal birthday of all trees, and contemporarily: a sort of Jewish Earth Day, a call for conversations about sustainability and our duty to protect the natural world.

Over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence posted a short video on his social media channels to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The clip contained an excerpt from his recent speech to the Israeli Knesset and was accompanied by what appeared to be a bizarre quotation from it: