Новости за 31.07.2018

If you’re looking for a real rockin’ simcha in Jerusalem, you can do no better than Inyan Acher, one of the best Orthodox wedding bands around today. When they’re not making people dance, the band’s members are fond of shooting amusing viral videos. In this latest one, they take a hilarious and literal approach to their craft: As they enjoy “converting” famous pop songs, borrowing their melodies and switching out the lyrics with traditional Jewish texts, why not “convert” the singer as well? Asked by a rabbinic court who wrote “Shape of You... Читать дальше...

Like all nerds, I love Jeopardy, and when I’m not busy obnoxiously shouting my answers at the screen and snickering at those ninnies on TV who fail to respond to obvious clues like “After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, ‘Commercial use in doubt'” (the answer, of course, is “Television”), I daydream about my own perfect categories, narrow and verdant fields of knowledge in which I could show my uncontested superiority to the world entire. You know, like if someone... Читать дальше...

In the wake of a 2-week-old report detailing Amazon’s sales of burning-cross onesies and children’s backpacks featuring Pepe the Frog in an SS cap, many neo-Nazi- and KKK-influenced products are no longer for sale on the site. However, you can still buy a backpack featuring Pepe the Frog as a Muslim in a turban, and you can still buy The Fable of the Ducks and the Hens, an anti-Semitic 1959 children’s book written by George Lincoln Rockwell.

Last Friday, Yotam Ovadia wanted to do something nice for his wife. Cooking a surprise romantic dinner, he thought, would be a wonderful way to spend Shabbat. He bought all the ingredients, and stored them at his parents’ house nearby. Then, in the evening, he told his wife, Tal, that he was going out for a bit and will return soon.

Last Friday, Yotam Ovadia wanted to do something nice for his wife. Cooking a surprise romantic dinner, he thought, would be a wonderful way to spend Shabbat. He bought all the ingredients, and stored them at his parents house nearby. Then, in the evening, he told his wife, Tal, that he was going out for a bit and will return soon.

On a warm day in July, the Knox Street Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio, showed no signs of life except for the few birds building nests in the old trees surrounding the graveyard. A barbed wire fence lines the perimeter, and a rusty lock holds the iron gate tightly closed against would-be visitors or vandals. Generations of the city’s Jewish community lie beneath the grass in this lot, with weather-worn dates reaching back to the mid-1800s. Today, though, there are no little rocks left on the headstones by visitors, and no flowers. Читать дальше...

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

One of my joys of summer is cooking and eating rhubarb. My garden is prolific with the tart-tasting vegetable. I gently pull out the edible leaf stalks, selecting the sweeter red ones and discarding the leaves, to make pies, pavlovas, cakes, compotes, and crumbles using recipes from every country in Europe.