Новости за 03.05.2018

It’s no secret that YouTube plays host to an amazing array of bigoted content. Despite the site’s claims to police hateful material, you can find countless clips promulgating racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. There are numerous videos spreading conspiracies theories about the Rothschilds and their malignant global influence. There are numerous videos starring notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. There are even videos of Louis Farrakhan ranting about the Rothschilds. You name it, YouTube has it. Читать дальше...

On April 10, Poland’s consulate in New York announced the cancellation of the Polish-Jewish Dialogue’s annual awards dinner, where the historian Ewa Kurek was scheduled to receive an honor named after Jan Karski, an army officer who risked his life to tell the world about the horrors of Auschwitz and who later became one of Poland’s leading diplomats and elder statesmen. Right-wing non-Jewish participants in the group, which has around 60 members, had nominated Kurek for the award. The Dialogue’s... Читать дальше...

Joe Lieberman, the senator from Connecticut until 2013, has always been a coy mistress with his fellow Democrats, on most matters a staunch liberal, on foreign policy a sharp-feathered hawk, a good party soldier nevertheless willing to take his services elsewhere as needed—as in 2006, when he lost the Democratic primary for Senate, then ran a winning independent campaign on the humbly titled “Connecticut for Lieberman” party line.

Birthdays, for adults, are thorny things. Once you’ve aged out of the frosted-cake-and-party-favors demographic—at ten, say, or 12—how you choose to celebrate your special day says much about who you are. Some throw lavish affairs, others sourly ignore the whole thing. Gal Gadot? Well, she has her own magical way.

I hadn’t really been wondering where Adam Sandler went. I had a vague idea, because I am friends with one crazy, punch-drunk Adam Sandler fan, that he was still making movies, but if you had asked me to name a movie he’d made since, say, Funny People (2009), I’d have shrugged and cued up “The Chanukah Song,” which makes the case as well as any bit of culture that America peaked during Bill Clinton’s first term (Infinite Jest and the peak years of Beverly Hills 90210 round out my case).

This week on Unorthodox, we’re celebrating Lag Ba’Omer! Our Jewish guest is Senator Joe Lieberman, whose new book, With Liberty & Justice: The 50-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai, highlights the importance of the the period between Passover and Shavuot known as the Omer. He tells us about being one of the most publically observant Jews in politics, why he never wore a yarmulke in the Senate, and whether the Gore White House would have had a kosher kitchen.

Between 1913 and 1916, Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport, known as S. Ansky, penned a play called The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds that revolutionized Yiddish theater. First performed in Warsaw in 1920, the play depicts the love of Chanon and Leah, promised to each other at birth but thwarted when Leah’s father backtracks on that pledge and gives her to another man. Chanon dies of a broken heart, then returns as a dybbuk, a wandering soul who possesses bodies, in this case, Leah’s. She rejects her new suitor, exorcises Chanon, and then she, too, dies. Читать дальше...

Empathy and brutality, appetite and hunger, reason and magic teeter in an unstable reality in Chaim Soutine’s paintings of flesh. The Jewish Museum has brought together 32 of his early still lifes of fish and fowl, his majestic slaughtered animals from the mid-1920s and ’30s, and his studies of farm animals, painted at the end of his life while he lived in hiding outside Paris, moving frequently because of the Nazi invasion of France. Although the Helly Nahmad Gallery presented Soutine together... Читать дальше...

Good news, everyone! For the first time in 16 years (has it really been that long?) Mandy Patinkin has recorded and released new music. But blink and you might miss the soul-searching in this album about the current state of the Jewish State.