Новости за 16.08.2018

Boris Johnson, the would-be Prime Minister recently found himself at the center of a debate on the niqab and burqa. That he should find himself at the center of any discussion is exactly where he wants to be. But what’s more interesting than Johnson’s premiership ambitions is the debate he has spurred. The whole episode raises questions of freedom of speech, the right to offend, and the right to scrutinize and criticise religion.

Today more than 350 papers and counting join forces in a coordinated pushback against President Donald Trump. It started last week when The Boston Globe sent a letter to papers across the country encouraging them to join in publishing editorials “on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press.” Is this a brave act of resistance, beleaguered members of the newspaper guild joining together to say “I am Spartacus!” in defiance of tyranny? No chance.

If America were only fighting a Thirty Years War we’d be past the halfway point. But markers of time, like measures of progress, are only an illusion in wars without end; as useless to the people fighting them as the F-35 has been. Still, it’s worth checking in occasionally to see what fresh hell there is. Reports came this week from Afghanistan where the key city of Ghazni, on the capital, Kabul’s, southern doorstep, was recaptured by Taliban fighters who had been making incremental gains in the city for months. Читать дальше...

The most heroic chapter in the dark history of the annihilation of European Jewry was written by teenagers with guns. Brave beyond imagination, starving, desperate, childless, parentless, unloved by their countrymen, they fully expected to die. They had witnessed the starvation, transport and the killing of their families, friends and teachers. The leaders of the youth movements to which they belonged—left- and right-wing Zionist, European socialist, and communist alike—had mostly fled to Moscow and Palestine at the beginning of the war... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, the producers take over while Mark, Liel, and Stephanie are off having summer fun. Shira, Noah, and Josh bring you three stories of people sharing, studying, and challenging their faith.