Новости за 21.06.2016

There’s the old joke about the book entitled The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame being a pamphlet. Last week, it added another page—albeit one marked with a slight asterisk—focused on a legendary footballer and fashion icon: David Beckham.

Following months of controversy, Carlos Rosenkrantz—a 57-year-old attorney and former dean of The University of San Andrés who describes himself as the “son of a Jewish father with Polish roots and a Catholic teacher”—is set to become the first Jewish justice to sit on Argentina’s Supreme Court, reported JTA. Rosenkrantz, who was nominated by current Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, was approved by a vote of 58-12 in the Senate last week.

Last Thursday morning, UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage proudly unveiled his party’s latest European Union referendum campaign poster. “BREAKING POINT,” screeched the billboard, “The EU has failed us all.” Pictured behind Farage was a long, snaking line of migrants and refugees, presumably headed straight for Britain’s shores.

It’s been a rough 24 hours for Donald Trump’s presidential run. Last night, the Trump campaign’s Federal Election Commission filings were made public, revealing, among other things, that Trump’s presidential effort has a paltry $1.3 million on hand and spent more on hats than online advertising in May. Luckily for the the real estate mogul, this late-breaking scrutiny of Trump’s campaign financing has all but memory-holed the apparent firing of his campaign manager a mere 12 hours earlier.

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

Bob Kaufman Alley, in San Francisco’s neighborhood of North Beach, is tiny—narrow and hardly a block in length. Only a smattering of locals and dedicated poetry aficionados around the world remember whom it is named after—the eccentric street poet-prophet, whose personal history remains a mystery to this day. Kaufman’s improvised street performances, his 30 (or more) arrests, Jewish and Caribbean roots, involuntary shock treatment, and decade-long vow of silence are touched on in Billy Woodberry’s And When I Die... Читать дальше...

At the end of May, the top-rated Israeli news program broadcast a statistic that made waves in the Knesset: Of the 32 female lawmakers at the time (there are now 33), 28 had experienced sexual harassment or assault. Channel 2 Knesset reporter Daphna Liel dedicated nearly 15 minutes of the prime-time news hour to having nine Israeli MKs tell their stories, ranging from experiencing humiliating comments to assault.