Новости за 12.02.2018

Born in Malibu and trained in Winnipeg, Maureya Lebowitz is a real, live, Jewish ballerina. Suffice it to say, she is not your typical ballerina. For starters, her show prep includes a power nap, an espresso, and some dark chocolate. After joining the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2011, Lebowitz has started to gain international attention, dancing as a soloist all over the world: As Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Spring in Cinderella. She happened to be in New York and... Читать дальше...

There may not be many Jews living in the Danish capital today, but the local community is world-famous for the exceptional protection it received from its government and their compatriots during World War II. Despite the challenges of emigration and assimilation, which are typical of many other Jewish communities across Europe, the Jews of Copenhagen—approximately 2,500—still form a vibrant, dynamic community. And later this year, they are hoping to return into their 184-year-old great synagogue, which is scheduled to reopen in August. Читать дальше...

Vietnam has two Chabad Houses, one in Hanoi and one in Ho Chi Minh City. Kyrgyzstan has one, in the city of Bishkek, and so does Mauritius, home to an estimated 150 Jews. Montenegro, New Zealand, and Martinique all have Chabad Houses. Every year, options are dwindling for shluchim (emissaries) looking for an exotic locale to start a Jewish community center. Unless you’re willing to go to Reykjavík.

Being a world class moral idiot, Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to turn his critics into moral idiots too.

Yaakov Bleich is the chief rabbi of Ukraine, which is the kind of job that requires a lot of international air travel. Recently, darting from New York to Israel, the rabbi boarded El Al’s new Boeing 787 “Dreamliner,” expecting a comfortable flight. To pass his time, he toyed around with the aircraft’s personal entertainment system, which includes a very detailed map of the world, with brief explanations in Hebrew and in English teaching the jet-setting passengers a bit about the world’s cities.

The last 600 years of anti-hero fetishization have failed to produce anything like the title character of Ferenc Molnar’s 1909 play, Liliom, the story of an unrepentant young man who works as a barker at a merry-go-round. Eventually Liliom moves in with a young woman and begins to torment her. Not one for hard work, and proud of his criminal streak, he then decides to try his hand at armed robbery. He has no training in any field, flouts authority like an adolescent, and he gets flustered easily—in one scene... Читать дальше...

Last summer, members of Hezbollah developed the habit of tweeting greetings from their posts in Syria to loved ones back in Lebanon. One combatant, his face unseen in the photo, thought it funny to address Israeli army spokesman Maj. Avichay Adraee directly by holding up a cardboard sign: “We are practicing on the Nusra Front in preparation to occupy the Galilee.”