ToI’s weekly deep dive: The kids’ book that burned up NY; After binary options, cryptocurrency cometh; When life gave her lemons, she made cupcakes

2017. december 10 14:22

ToI’s weekly deep dive: The kids’ book that burned up NY; After binary options, cryptocurrency cometh; When life gave her lemons, she made cupcakes

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THE WEEKEND EDITIONSunday, December 10, 2017
FILM REVIEW
Spielberg’s topical ‘The Post’ presses all the right buttons
BY JORDAN HOFFMAN
There could not be a more timely film as Spielberg explores how 1970s journalists stand up to a belligerent president during an era of belittling women in power
Film review / Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘Phantom Thread’ is a cut above
BY JORDAN HOFFMAN
ANALYSISDOV LIEBER
Israeli decision not to limit access to Jerusalem prayers helped reduce protests
On Friday, Israel showed that, despite Trump’s speech, nothing had changed on the Temple Mt.
Abbas must decide how far to let the demonstrations go
BY AVI ISSACHAROFF
GIDEON REMEZ
Trump’s nothingburger: A Hanukkah gift for Putin?
Interview / ‘More countries not only willing, but eager to embrace Israel,’ says Dore Gold
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
C IS FOR CONTROVERSY
‘P is for Palestine’ children’s picture book ignites controversy in New York
BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND
Settlers, with kids, return to spot of deadly clash to complete bar mitzvah hike
BY JACOB MAGID
One father asks children to stand exactly where they were last week when blocked in a cave by Palestinians from Qusra village
At East Jerusalem enclave, some Jews happier with Trump than with Netanyahu
BY JACOB MAGID
As binary options shuts down, some ex-operatives turn to cryptocurrency
BY SIMONA WEINGLASS
Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey
BY MATT LEBOVIC
Part of efforts to keep Holocaust memory alive in an uncertain world, a roving exhibition of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau premieres in Madrid
Archaeologists expose Muslim-Jewish ‘dialogue’ in Jerusalem from 1,300 years ago
BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Tbilisi’s Jewish community keeps active with Israeli tourists, and Chabad meals
BY JESSICA STEINBERG
FILM REVIEW
A landmark for gay cinema — and one of the best Jewish films in years
BY JORDAN HOFFMAN
‘Call Me by Your Name’ is an honest, character-driven coming of age story that rings authentic with its sideways glance at identity politics
Fired from her job, she turned a bite-sized business into a cupcake conglomerate
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
Melissa Ben-Ishay started baking in her New York City apartment; now her 13 stores ship the miniature morsels across the US
Watch it here first: Modern Orthodox dating games in a new ‘Soon by You’
BY YAAKOV SCHWARTZ
OUCHLESS
Israeli device banishes finger-pricking for sugar levels in diabetes patients
BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON
Cnoga says it has created the first commercially available noninvasive glucose meter, using a camera and algorithms to read changes in fingers’ color
Israel’s Elbit spyware accused of tracking Ethiopian dissidents
BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON
RACHEL SHARANSKY DANZIGER
The shin on my dreidel
I was four years old, and I struggled to spin my dreidel just so. I was eight years old, and my newest dreidel cast blue and green lights across the room. I was ten years old, and my sister and I spun dreidels as fast as we could. Who would get more of them to spin before the first one fell? Who would win? At one point, 20 dreidels were spinning between us. Some of them played Hannukah songs, and the tunes screeched over each other, never perfectly aligned. My firstborn was four…