Новости за 29.03.2018

Wednesday morning in Paris began with an appropriate cascading thunderstorm, as French citizens gathered to observe French President Emmanuel Macron lead a state funeral in honor of Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame. The heroic colonel was killed in Trèbes in the south of France by a petty criminal turned hostage taker who had sworn allegiance to ISS. Beltrame had traded places with a hostage, and was stabbed and shot before the French police could liquidate the attacker. Yet, the attack in the supermarket... Читать дальше...

How is the seder different from all other nights, you ask? Well, it’s not just the bitter herbs and the excessive reclining. Tomorrow night, Jews around the world, and those who love them, will gather to feast and, more importantly, to tell one heck of a story. And, as stories go, this one, too, only stays relevant because we understand it to be not only the story of some dusty Israelites millennia ago but also the story of all of us. We all have our own Pharaohs. We all have our own Egypt. And... Читать дальше...

On Monday, the organized British Jewish community took the unprecedented step of flooding the square outside Parliament to protest unchecked anti-Semitism in the U.K. Labour party under current leader Jeremy Corbyn. Drawing 1 in every 200 British Jews on less than 24 hours of notice, the event made all the major front pages and succeeded in forcing the issue, at least for the moment. On Wednesday, this renewed scrutiny claimed its first casualty.

Earlier this month, Tablet launched the 100 Most Jewish Foods project, a celebration, we wrote, of the foods that “have been most profoundly inspired by the rhythms of the Jewish calendar and the contingencies of the Jewish experience.” It should come as no surprise that Passover, arguably the most food-centric of all Jewish holidays, was heavily represented in the list. Before you sit down at the Seder table, then, why not take a look at some of its culinary highlights?

’Tis the season, when talk in households across the land, including my own, turns to HRs and RBIs: the arcana of baseball. Though the men in my life are big fans of the national pastime, rooting for the Yankees through thick and thin, the sport holds little interest for me. In fact, it wasn’t until fairly recently that I attended my very first game, which featured the Staten Island Yankees. But even then, my reason for going was to show the colors for my friends, Phyllis and Stanley Getzler, who had purchased the team... Читать дальше...

When I asked my son Noah if he’d make his Aunt Sheri’s macaroons for our Passover Seder, he paused just a beat before saying yes. This was a week before Passover and three weeks after he’d come home from college on medical leave, suffering from major depression and anxiety. The “yes” was more than my husband and I had been able to get out of Noah when we implored him to see a psychiatrist.

There were two goats tethered to a tree on the slope leading to the temple. The people had come from their farms, from their villages, from the countryside, from the city. They were gathered with their families waiting for the sound of the shofar, for the end of the day of atonement when they would pack up their baskets, carry sleeping children on their shoulders and begin the year, the year that would soon arrive, a year in which once again their sins would repeat themselves, with new ones added in. Читать дальше...

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This week on Unorthodox, everything you ever wanted to know about Passover. We answer listener questions, writer Roya Hakakian tells us about Persian Passover traditions, including scallion whipping at the Seder, and producer Josh Kross’ mother-in-law, Elsie Apfelbaum, shares the magic of Mimouna, the Moroccan festival celebrating the end of Passover (with some help from Josh’s daughter Stella). Jay Miah tells the story of how his... Читать дальше...

Punk chefs advise that if you want to ground up matzoh to make matzoh ball soup, you can have the punk rock band in your living room do it for you.