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Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:41 PM PST Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein, reportedly hides in Israel Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, March 15, 2005. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) (JTA) — Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who has been accused of helping late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is reportedly hiding out in Israel. A source told the New York Post that Maxwell, the daughter of the late Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell, is being “protected” in a number of countries, including Israel. “She is not in the U.S., she moves around,” the source said in an article published last week. “She is sometimes in the U.K., but most often in other countries, such as Israel, where her powerful contacts have provided her with safe houses and protection.” Last month, Reuters reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing Maxwell and others with ties to Epstein. Maxwell and Epstein were romantically involved for several years and then remained close. One of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, has accused Maxwell of recruiting her to have sex with him when she was a minor. Maxwell denied the allegations. Epstein, the Jewish millionaire financier facing sex trafficking charges for allegedly abusing dozens of minor girls, hanged himself in his New York City jail cell in August, law enforcement officials said. Though New York City’s chief medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, a forensic pathologist hired by his family said the autopsy pointed to homicide. |
Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:40 PM PST The first kosher bar in the former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons A bartender prepares a cocktail at Kosher Bar in Odessa, Ukraine, Sept. 25, 2019. (Courtesy of Kosher Bar) ADVERTISEMENT ODESSA, Ukraine (JTA) — As an Orthodox Jew, Aryeh Rov had little interest in this port city’s rich and vibrant bar scene. For one thing, most drinks served in Odessa’s bars are not kosher, limiting his choice to a handful of certified brands. He also usually doesn’t feel “at ease” at a bar. “A person wearing a kippah just stands out in places like that. Certainly an Orthodox Jewish couple,” said Rov, who is 40 and married. |
Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:38 PM PST Audiences loved ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish, but Yiddish itself still gets no love Chaim Topol in the 1971 "Fiddler on the Roof" movie. (RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images) ADVERTISEMENT NEW YORK (JTA) — “Fidler afn Dakh,” the Yiddish adaptation of “Fiddler on the Roof,” closed on Jan. 5 after a wildly successful 11-month run off-Broadway and an equally successful seven-month stint at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Shraga Friedman’s Yiddish translation of “Fiddler” is a miracle (of miracles) and it was a joy to see it — and Yiddish — celebrated not just in my little shtetl, but in the mainstream, too. And yet, when I recently stepped onto a stage and spoke Yiddish, I was less appreciated and more iconicized. Let me explain. I didn’t even know it happened until I read about it in the newspaper afterwards. I had done something quite out of the ordinary for my life: I took a gig as a performer at a “Cocktails and Klezmer” evening in Philadelphia. My job was to lead the audience through some Yiddish questions and unpack a few elements of Yiddish grammar. I was the educational content in between the booze and schmooze. The next week, the event was reviewed in the Jewish Exponent. As Jesse Bernstein described it, I “read aloud with the crowd, building the sentence fragment by fragment, filling the room with guttural ‘ch’s’ and other vocal foundations of the language.” It reminded me of the joke in Billy Crystal’s autobiographical book (and then show) 700 Sundays, in which he describes his family as “the kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was 11, I wore a raincoat.” |
Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:36 PM PST 4 ways New York’s government is trying to fight rising anti-Semitism From right: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hold a banner at the march against anti-Semitism in New York City, Jan. 5, 2020. (John Lamparski/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) ADVERTISEMENT NEW YORK (JTA) — After this past weekend’s rousing march to protest rising anti-Semitism in New York — where Jews have been shot, stabbed, assaulted and harassed over the past year — two big questions still loom large. What is causing all of this? And what are officials doing about it? The first question is fraught, bedeviling experts and community members alike. The second has some answers. From beefing up security to bolstering community outreach, here are four ways government and community leaders are trying to break the wave of anti-Semitism that has crested over New York City. |
SAMUEL BECKETT HERRERO DE LA PROSA Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:03 AM PST Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, review: a life-affirming portrait of the wordsmith wonder  Stephen Rea was telling fellow Irish actor Adrian Dunbar about the time that he worked with Samuel Beckett at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1976. After the playwright had watched a rehearsal of Endgame, director Robert Kidd asked him: “Well, Sam. Happy?” In reply, Beckett simply “roared his leg off”. Rea and Dunbar dissolved into wheezing laughter at the very idea of asking “the arch pessimist of the 20th century” if he was happy. It was just one of many lovely moments in Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (BBC Four). Acclaimed screen actor and theatre director Dunbar is best known as cult hero Supt Ted Hastings from hit police drama Line of Duty. He’s usually only interested in catching bent coppers, but here Dunbar shared his own true passion. He has long felt a connection to Beckett, whose formative years were spent in Dunbar’s native Fermanagh. Dunbar even co-curates an annual Beckett festival in his hometown of Enniskillen. This impressionistic film followed Dunbar, a thoughtfully avuncular presence, as he travelled in Beckett’s footsteps to the places that shaped him. He traced his solidly middle-class Dublin roots, then walked the Wicklow hills where Beckett and his father were “fanatical trampers”.  We heard about the “savage loving” of his mother and his move to Paris in the 1920s, where he became secretary to his hero James Joyce. During the Second World War, Beckett put himself in the firing line by joining the Resistance. “I prefer France at war to Ireland at peace,” he famously said. Dunbar met the dwindling number of collaborators who’d met this intensely private man. As well as Rea, there were thesps Barry McGovern and Clara Simpson, photographer John Minihan, and biographer James Knowlson, who described the writer as resembling “an Aztec eagle, upright like a middle-distance runner”. Experimental and existential, Beckett isn’t the easiest author to love, but this was a welcome reminder of the pain and compassion at the core of his work. Far more than a South Bank Show-esque biography, it was an elegiac portrait of the artist as a young man, packed with haunting quotations and windswept landscapes. “I’ve often heard people say Beckett is difficult and bleak, but that’s not true for me,” said Dunbar. “I’ve found engaging with his work to be both life-affirming and uplifting.” This fine film achieved something similar. Related Topics |
DEVOTO SOY DE TS ELLIOTT CREADOR DE LA MODERNA POESÍA Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:58 AM PST
TS Eliot’s letters to his American confidante revealed his passionate feelings towards her, it has emerged – despite the poet issuing a furious denial, upon learning that the letters were to be made public. Eliot, born in Missouri but eventually becoming a British citizen, wrote more than 1,000 letters to Emily Hale, who he first met in 1912 while studying at Harvard. The letters, which were written between 1932 and 1947, were donated by Hale to Princeton University, on the stipulation that they be made public 50 years after both parties were dead. Eliot died in 1965 and Hale in 1969. Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s biographer and senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, was among the first people to see the letters. Princeton has not made them available online, and so Gordon was at the library in New Jersey early in the morning, one of only six people to begin sorting through the eagerly-anticipated archive contained in 14 boxes. She began with Hale’s lengthy preface, and then started in 1932. “He was writing to her ardently, and with great emotion,” she told The Telegraph. “It was a very emotional Eliot – quite different to the cool character we thought we knew. Eliot was incredibly winning in these letters. It was soulmate to soulmate. He was offering something very rare – an unusual devotion.”  Yet midway through Thursday morning, she and the other scholars gathered in the library received a bombshell text, emailed to them from the TS Eliot Foundation. The text was a letter which Eliot wrote as a preface to the release of Hale’s letters, designed to mitigate what he knew would be surprising revelations as to his feelings towards her. He admitted to being in love with her, but said he had seen the error of his sentiment, and that his letters to Hale were “the letters of an hallucinated man”. He continued: “From 1947 on, I realised more and more how little Emily Hale and I had in common. I had already observed that she was not a lover of poetry, certainly that she was not much interested in my poetry; I had already been worried by what seemed to be evidence of insensitiveness and bad taste. “It may be too harsh, to think that what she liked was my reputation rather than my work.”  Eliot wrote to Hale: "You have made me perfectly happy: that is, happier than I have ever been in my life; the only kind of happiness now possible for the rest of my life is now with me; and though it is the kind of happiness which is identical with my deepest loss and sorrow, it is a kind of supernatural ecstasy… I tried to pretend that my love for you was dead, though I could only do so by pretending myself that my heart was dead; at any rate, I resigned myself to celibate old age.” Gordon said she was taken aback by the fervour of Eliot’s letters, and the cold dismissal of his feelings which he intended to preface the archive. “I can absolutely see why these letters were for her eyes alone,” said Gordon. “Eliot made his feelings clear to Hale in these letters. It was not just a sentimental passing moment; he was more in love than ever. “What was striking to me, though, was the timed rebuttal. He found out in 1956 that the letters were to be handed to Princeton. And in 1960 he set off this bombshell, which went off exactly as planned. It’s astonishing to me how raw his anger was, even after all that time. It’s an absolute contrast to the letters themselves.” She described seeing the letters as “enthralling”, laughing how at one point she was standing at the same table as the head of the TS Eliot Society, and noticed that they were both “truly overwhelmed with happy excitement”. “I had hoped this would be an amazing collection. Emily Hale said she wished to be there herself when they were published. “Yet the great Eliot scholar Dame Helen Gardner, who knew Eliot very well and had an admirable understanding of him, she thought the letters would not be very exciting at all. And I thought that was quite possible. "Eliot gave a lecture at Yale in 1953 on letter writing, and said he found love letters tedious. So I thought I wouldn't see any love letters. But it’s been more exciting than I dared hope.” Gordon said she intends to spend the next two months reading through the papers, aiming to include them in a book, and stressed that it was too soon to draw firm conclusions about them. Two months, she now feels, may not be enough to do them justice. “Both had a lot of pain in their lives,” she said. “These were incredibly complex people.” |
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