ToI’s weekly deep dive: Ghosts of #MeToo, past and present; Breitbart’s nice Jewish editor; Lingering stench from Coco Chanel; ‘A German Life’ chills

2017. december 24 15:49

ToI’s weekly deep dive: Ghosts of #MeToo, past and present; Breitbart’s nice Jewish editor; Lingering stench from Coco Chanel; ‘A German Life’ chills

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THE WEEKEND EDITIONSunday, December 24, 2017
Trading sleigh for camel, Jerusalem Santa puts the ‘ho, ho, ho’ in holy city
BY JESSICA STEINBERG
Red-suited ex-basketball player Issa Kassissieh, a Christmas fixture in the Old City, is cheerier than ever this year after training at Denver’s Professional Santa Claus School
After #MeToo, some congregations weigh changing their tune on Shlomo Carlebach
BY MELANIE LIDMAN
The wave of sexual misconduct accusations toppling dozens of icons has reignited the conversation about the complicated legacy of the ‘singing rabbi’
Community in crisis / Conservative Jewry has #MeToo moment as decades-old sexual abuse surfaces
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
ANALYSISRAPHAEL AHREN
As far-right Austrian party attempts to shed Nazi past, a dilemma for Israel
Jerusalem conflicted over whether to side with Diaspora Jewish leaders, who are shunning FPOe, or engage in realpolitik to advance Israel’s interests
HILLEL NEUER
The 10 most insane UN anti-Israel actions of 2017
Why Israel’s massive defeat at the UN isn’t quite as bad as it looks
BY RAPHAEL AHREN
INTERVIEW
How an Orthodox journalist went from far-left activist to Breitbart editor
BY AMIHAI ZIPPOR
Do Israel’s ‘ghost apartments’ explain why the home you want is out of reach?
BY SIMONA WEINGLASS
House prices have risen 118% in a decade. Now the government says Israel has 4 times more empty homes than it thought. Is there a connection? And is money laundering also a factor?
In world first, Israeli undergoes surgery to regrow a bone
BY TOI STAFF
FILM REVIEW
Shot in black and white, ‘A German Life’ paints WWII in chilling shades of gray
BY JORDAN HOFFMAN
The film’s ‘star,’ a secretary to Goebbels who was in Hitler’s bunker at the very end, continues to deny culpability, still gets teary-eyed about the Fuhrer’s suicide
INTERVIEW
Foul note in Chanel No. 5 let out of the bottle in new film
BY TRACY FRYDBERG
Documentary shows how fashion designer Coco Chanel attempted to use Nazi laws to undercut Jewish business partners during WWII
Film’s gay lovers bonded as Jews first, says ‘Call Me by Your Name’ writer
BY JESSICA STEINBERG
Coming-of-age drama, touted as one of the best Jewish movies in years, is based on a novel by an Egyptian-born Jew
JAMI NELSON
My gay son is no sinner
Hands-on education as Israeli teens excavate 1,500-year-old Byzantine church
BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN
STARVING ARTISTS
Exhibit lauds UK iconoclast artist who saw the light in Jerusalem
BY ANNE JOSEPH
British-Jewish painter David Bomberg always went against the grain and died destitute, but ironically, shortly after his death joined the British canon
Gown and out / Israeli designer confirms wedding gown sketches for Markle
BY TRACY FRYDBERG
SHOSHANNA SOLOMON
The clink of a teaspoon against a teacup
I often make myself a cup of tea early in the morning, in those quiet, morning hours when the household is still asleep, mostly on weekends. And there I am, standing in my kitchen, stirring the milk and the saccharine into the hot, tea-soaked water, when I hear the noise. „Clink, clink… clink.” There it is again. That sound. It is the teaspoon. Bumping against the side of the teacup. And suddenly, always, I am overwhelmed by memories. That was the noise I used to hear when I was a…