Новости за 30.08.2018

Iosof Kobzon, sometimes also called Joseph, the English version of his name, was the Soviet Union’s maestro of world war two nostalgia and communist kitsch. A Russian Jewish Frank Sinatra with the mob ties to show for it, he died Thursday at the age of 81.

I work in midtown on the east side. At the end of the day, I usually stroll over to 6th Avenue and catch the F train.  I need the exercise, and the walk helps clear my head. The final block before I reach the subway is my favorite. The sameness of skyscrapers and anonymous office workers comes to an abrupt end on the stretch of 47th Street known as the Diamond District.

It’s Thursday. It’s been a long week. We’ve survived three months’ worth of breaking news cycles in just a few days. We’re tired, and we need some sweet story that reaffirms our basic belief, the one we refuse to abandon, that there are still decent humans out there and that sometimes, life works out just fine. Ready for your feel-good story? Sit back and read on.

We are approaching the first night of Selichot, the days leading up to Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur when supplications are recited in the wee hours of the night or before morning prayers to get us ready for the high holidays. As I prepare, I always think of my father and the Selichot service he was part of in 1939.

This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about Eichmann. We sit down with Operation Finale director Chris Weitz and actor Nick Kroll to discuss the new film, which depicts the 1960 covert mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Final Solution, who was living under an assumed identity in Argentina. Kroll, who is best known as a comic actor, takes on the role of Rafi Eitan, the Shin Bet leader who coordinated the mission, alongside Oscar Isaac as legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin... Читать дальше...

This week, a young marketing executive named Evan Perlmutter took to eBay with a modest proposal: He will sell his fandom of the New York Knicks for $1,973, the symbolic sum representing the last year the tragic bunch from Madison Square Garden won a championship. A dude from California bid $3,500, and with the stroke of a button Perlmutter—his childhood bedroom still adorned with posters of Patrick Ewing—transferred his allegiance to the Los Angeles Lakers.