Новости за 21.11.2016

Nearly two months before the 2016 presidential election, I received an invitation from Robert Silverman of the American Jewish Committee to join an unprecedented endeavor: to become part of a national Jewish-Muslim advisory council convened by two organizations with little, if any, history of working together. In the wake of eighteen months of a polarizing and often alarming campaign season, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) joined forces to bring... Читать дальше...

Ah, wrestling. That campy, testosterone-driven few hours of television you never wish you hadn’t watched. Turns out, it’s still going strong, and last week, Goldberg returned to ring after more than a decade away. Here’s what his entrance looked like.

Last Friday, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at Adam Yauch park—a children’s playground—in Brooklyn Heights. That swastikas and Trump tags were drawn on a park named after the founding member of a Jewish rap group was no coincidence. The vandalism was covered up with hearts.

Hi, Unorthodox listeners, it’s Mark here. During this past election season, I had exactly one Facebook friend who was posting pro-Trump material. His name was Bob Barnes, and he was a guy I had gone to college with for two years. At Yale, in the mid-’90s, Bob was widely known on campus as the anti-elitist southern populist—tribune of poor, rural white folk, as it were. Although he had attended a private school (on scholarship), and was well-liked at Yale, he was always ambivalent about … well... Читать дальше...

When it comes to Thanksgiving dinner, green bean casserole—the dish that smothers green beans under a blanket of Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and a cap of canned fried onions—is at the top of the list of iconic sides. Or, at least, I always thought so. But years ago, during one of our first Thanksgivings together, I mentioned the dish to my husband. He offered me a blank stare in return. Suddenly I began to doubt everything I thought I knew about the Super Bowl of American holiday meals.... Читать дальше...

Every time that I have participated in a grave political crisis, I have found myself distracted by beautiful weather, and the distractions have always seemed to me ignoble. I worried about this as a college student. The United States was falling apart over the Vietnam War and the civil-rights revolution and nameless other revolutions that no one understood. My friends and I responded by staging a student uprising in New York, which led to police riots and arrests and busy emergency rooms, which amounted to still more crises... Читать дальше...

A month after the Continental Congress had drafted the Declaration of Independence, one of that document’s architects, Benjamin Franklin, sketched out a brief description of his design for the Great Seal of the new nation. Franklin wanted the Great Seal of the United States to feature, “Moses in the Dress of a High Priest standing on the Shore, and Extending his Hand Over the Sea, Thereby Causing the Same to Overwhelm Pharaoh.” He wrote that the seal should depict “Rays From a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds Reaching to Moses... Читать дальше...