Новости за 10.05.2016

The trailer (remember when we used to call them previews?) for Adam Sandler’s new movie The Do-Over, was apparently published on April 20—launched into the Internet ether by some Netflix marketing team that probably thought the date would be ironic enough to spark a weed-related viral sensation—but it somehow only came to my attention today. This makes sense because it’s not the mid-’90s and Sandler, who, for the record, I love, doesn’t quite matter like he used to. Feast your eyes:

The Internet, in all its glory, gave us cats that look like Hitler. Now it’s offering dogs that…love him?

Welcome back to #TrumpWatch, where Tablet presents the daily low-lights of Donald Trump’s attempt to use the dark forces of bigotry to become President of the United States. Today, let’s revisit the anti-Semitic attacks against journalist Julia Ioffe, who profiled Melania Trump last month for GQ, for which she traveled to Slovenia, Melania’s birthplace. Ioffe wrote about the former model’s father, Victor Knavs, and reported the fact that she has a half-brother. Melania Trump criticized the article on Facebook... Читать дальше...

The following is excerpted from Israel Eats by Steven Rothfeld, reprinted by permission of Gibbs Smith.

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

Two weeks shy of 90, Yohanan Elihai is feverishly working in his Jerusalem study on updating his Arabic-Hebrew dictionary, published by the Ministry of Defense over a decade ago. That dictionary contains 5,000 words and 10,000 sentences; but he would like it to conform to his famous Arabic-English Olive Tree Dictionary, published in 2007, which contains 8,000 words and 17,000 sentences. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Arabic teacher in the country, Elihai is also the author of numerous... Читать дальше...

It’s hard to imagine someone winning a U.S. presidential election with high, unfavorable ratings across nearly every demographic category—meaning that Donald Trump will need to distance himself from a number of statements and positions over the course of the next six months if he wants to make it to the White House. As it happens, the businessman is already in the process of walking back a position for which he was briefly pilloried by his now-dispatched Republican primary opponents: the oft-repeated... Читать дальше...