Новости за 02.11.2017

I doubt I’ll ever entirely understand why Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish didn’t flip Yuli Gurriel in his first at-bat last night. It’s game seven of the World Series, you’re at home, lovely Chavez Ravine, the stands are packed with 50,000 mostly Dodgers fans, there’s a worldwide audience in the tens of millions watching you, and the guy who made fun of you a few nights back steps to the plate. They showed on TV what he did—the eye thing—when he got back to the dugout after hitting a home run off you. Читать дальше...

Tablet is hiring two paid, part-time spring editorial interns. If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we’d love to hear from you.

In 2011, the national census conducted by Statistics Canada reported 309,650 Jews; five years later, the newly released 2016 census reported only 143,665 Jews, a decline of more than 50 percent.

Earlier this week, news broke that supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has begun selling Bamba, Israel’s iconic snack. Some Israelis celebrated the announcement. Others had more concrete questions: How much does Bamba cost in New York?

On Nov. 2, 1917, Arthur James Balfour, Britain’s mustachioed foreign secretary, signed his name at the bottom of a short typed letter to a shy banker-turned-zoologist by the name of Lionel Walter Rothschild. “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” it read. In the century since that fateful day, those words have reverberated around the world. They’ve changed reality, created national dreams, squashed political aspirations. Читать дальше...

Yossi Wolf—the entrepreneur behind Temi, a new robotic butler of sorts, slated to hit the market next year—got the idea from his nana. She was having a hard time learning how to operate her smart phone, Wolf told an Israeli interviewer, so he wondered if she’d find the technology easier to operate if it was attached to a robot.

It’s dark and nearing midnight in Denver. On the way into the city from the airport, the mountain air flows through the open windows of the taxi, fresh and crisp until we approach a long stretch of warehouses secured by barbed wire and topped with giant exhaust fans. My driver, a chubby man with glassy eyes, explains that the overwhelming weed smell now wafting through the car originates not from anything in his possession but rather in the industrialized growing operations that surround us and... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, we’re totally bewitched.

Our Jewish guest is novelist Alice Hoffman, whose new book is The Rules of Magic, a prequel to her bestselling 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was made into the 1998 film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. She tells us how she reimmersed herself in the magical Owens family 20 years later, the ways in which her Jewish background influenced her interest in rebellious women, and why it’s important to her to redefine the popular mythology of witches. Читать дальше...

David Goldstein’s sophomore book, Alley-Oop to Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land  tells the fascinating story of how black NBA players ended up playing on Israeli Teams. These men came to Israel with to play basketball, but ended up falling in love with the country.