Новости за 14.06.2018

It’s a bit awkward, but we really must know: Do you love us? Really, really love us?

There are feelings that can be felt once and only once over the course of an entire lifetime. The happiness produced through ice cream or sex or Purim or Con Air just isn’t the same as the happiness of getting married or having children or finishing a marathon for the first time. Pay attention, these moments tell you: You have reached an opportunity for self-observation that will absolutely never come again. Don’t pay attention to anything, they also say: Soak in the psychic tide before it recedes forever. Читать дальше...

As they do every four years at the first whistle of a new World Cup, Israelis today are likely to turn to each other and, with a misty look in their eyes, ask each other the perennial question: Remember Mexico?

One might expect to hear “Eli, Eli” at the March of the Living ceremony on Yom Ha’Shoah. One might not expect to hear it performed by a Japanese choir, in perfect Hebrew. Singing this tribute to Hannah Senesh, Japan’s Hashalom Choir was the only non-Israeli choir on the stage that day—a stage they shared with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Israel’s Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, and among other Israeli artists, the legendary Shlomo Artzi.

Blue Note Records has produced music from the greatest names in jazz: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. A new documentary by Swiss filmmaker Sophie Huber, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring and is currently playing the festival circuit. Hancock and Shorter appear in the film, along with the sly, funny... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, we’ve got a lot going on. We talk to Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, the newly minted scholar in residence for trans and queer Jewish studies at CBST, the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue. He’s the first Orthodox rabbi at the New York City synagogue, and he explains how Judaism, even at its most observant, has room for transgender people—and how all Jews could learn a lot about identity from the trans community.

A replica of Michelangelo’s “Moses” stared out from the bookshelf in Jeff Beals’ campaign headquarters in Woodstock, New York, a few rungs above a copy of the complete works of Allen Ginsberg. It gazed upon a trio of modestly framed certificates on the opposite side of the cramped former tattoo parlor from which Beals is mounting his assault on the Democratic nomination for New York’s 19th congressional district. Two commend his service as an analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency. The third is signed by Zalmay Khalilzad... Читать дальше...

The World Cup starts tomorrow, and if you were planning on rooting for either the U.S. or Israeli team, you already had your hopes dashed when they failed to qualify.