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Why Jews Cannot Stop Shaking Right Now

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There is a reason so many Jews cannot stop shaking right now. The concept of intergenerational trauma doesn’t begin to describe the dark place into which this month’s attack plunged Jewish communities around the world.

On Oct. 7, a Jewish holiday, Hamas terrorists went house to house in southern Israel murdering and abducting children and grandparents, pulling them from their beds, displaying victims’ dead bodies online, in a massacre of at least 1,400 people. In at least one instance, terrorists were reported to have uploaded a video of the murder of one victim to her own social media account for her family to discover.…  Seguir leyendo »

What Happens When the Last Jew Leaves Afghanistan

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The Last Jew of Afghanistan is gone, and everyone is glad to be rid of him.

Zebulon Simentov, Afghanistan’s only remaining Jew, escaped three weeks ago after refusing early opportunities to flee Kabul amid this summer’s American withdrawal. He initially declined to leave, he once told reporters, so as to protect the country’s last synagogue — though it seems that he may actually have hoped to avoid his estranged wife in Israel, who had been waiting over 20 years for him to sign off on a religious divorce. According to The Associated Press, Mr. Simentov, a “portly man fond of whiskey, who kept a pet partridge” and charged “exorbitant fees for interviews”, was a headache for the Israeli-American businessman who arranged his rescue.…  Seguir leyendo »

Los hombres que quieren vivir para siempre

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¿Querrías vivir para siempre? Algunos multimillonarios, que son invencibles en todos los demás aspectos, han decidido que también merecen escapar a la muerte. En la actualidad, varias empresas de biotecnología que son impulsadas por fortunas de Silicon Valley se dedican a la “prolongación de la vida” o, como lo dicen algunos, a resolver “el problema de la muerte”.

Es una causa que respaldan el multimillonario del sector tecnológico Peter Thiel; la consentida de TED Talk, Aubrey de Gray; Calico, el millonario laboratorio de longevidad de Google, y la inversión de Jeff Bezos, de Amazon. Recientemente, la Academia Nacional de Medicina, una organización de la sociedad civil, dedicó financiamiento con el fin de “acabar para siempre con el envejecimiento”.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Last Thursday, a 13-year-old boy won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling “knaidel,” Yiddish for matzo ball. But the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which created the standard Yiddish transliteration now used in libraries around the world, holds that the correct spelling is “kneydl.”

The spelling bee has stuck by the reference it considers authoritative, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (which attributes “knaidel” to the Middle High German word “knödel”). In the ensuing tempest in a soup bowl, one vital fact was drowned by the schmaltz: Spelling has been the life and death of nationality.

Yiddish is a thousand years old, but YIVO, founded in 1925 in what is now Vilnius in Lithuania, finished standardizing the spelling of Yiddish words in the Hebrew alphabet only in 1937.…  Seguir leyendo »