ToI’s weekly deep dive: When Israel almost bombed Baghdad; Virtual reality at Westerbork; Painter Zoya Cherkassky flaunts technicolor attitude

2018. január 21 18:12

ToI’s weekly deep dive: When Israel almost bombed Baghdad; Virtual reality at Westerbork; Painter Zoya Cherkassky flaunts technicolor attitude

 

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THE WEEKEND EDITIONSunday, January 21, 2018
‘We’re going to attack Iraq,’ Israel told the US. ‘Move your planes’
BY JUDAH ARI GROSS
On 27th anniversary of Saddam’s 1991 Scud missile strikes at Israel, Defense Ministry releases interviews with senior officials on how close Israel came to bombing Baghdad
Child rescued from Mumbai Chabad massacre makes emotional return
BY JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH
Accompanied by nanny who helped rescue him 9 years ago, Moshe Holtzberg unveils memorial to slain parents
In rare gesture, Jerusalem expresses sympathy for Iraqi terror victims
BY RAPHAEL AHREN
OP-EDDAVID HOROVITZ
Abbas couldn’t make peace with the Jews; he believes his own lies about us
In 2008, the Palestinian leader rejected Ehud Olmert’s unsurpassable peace offer. Sunday’s revolting speech in Ramallah underlined why
Jewish LGBTQ youths find safe space to reconcile religious and sexual identities
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
With many members coming from communities that prefer to keep them in the closet, JQY helps those who may still identify with their heritage find the path that’s best for them
#BlackLivesMatter in Israel too
BY VARDA SPIEGEL
Meet the little-known Jewish man behind Britain’s Thatcherist revolution
BY ROBERT PHILPOT
Born 100 years ago, upper-class Sir Keith Joseph made for a strange political bedfellow with Methodist, underprivileged Thatcher — but together the two changed UK politics forever
Author interview / The unknown director behind one of the most famous movies of all time
BY JP O’ MALLEY
Zoya Cherkassky paints her truth in first solo Israel Museum exhibition
BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND
Unafraid to shock and offend, Kiev-born artist uses edgy humor and crass stereotypes to portray mass post-Soviet aliya experience
650 works from NY Jewish Museum’s private stockpile on show in massive exhibit
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
Slow on the draw / NJ brothers learn painting stored under ping-pong table for years is a Rembrandt
BY SUE SURKES
For classroom success, import the Finnish method, says Israeli group
BY JESSICA STEINBERG
The Israel Center for Educational Innovation compares notes with a Finnish education professor, and laments that the Jewish state gives ‘lip service’ to good education for all
New York school funding law means STEM fields could see more yeshiva grads
BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE
LISA EISEN
6 ways to stop sex abuse in the Jewish world
INTERVIEW
Blessing or curse? A matriarch grapples with immortality in new Dara Horn novel
BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND
THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT
This Shabbat dinner pairing app isn’t for everyone — and that’s the point
BY GIDEON GRUDO
Even while targeting a limited demographic, OneTable’s demand outpaces supply, forcing the company to continue streamlining the most modern way to do the Day of Rest
Awkward dances and strapless dresses: A podcast takes on bat mitzvah culture
BY TRACY FRYDBERG
At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp
BY MATT LEBOVIC
Holland-based museum pilots a new GPS-based model to let visitors envision the Holocaust site — down to bricks, strands of barbed wire, and imperfections on wooden shingles
How Hitler used Jews’ failed WWI-era idealism to feed the world’s worst genocide
BY JP O’ MALLEY
NYC monument honoring Nazi collaborator to remain in place
BY DANIELLE ZIRI
DOV GUGGENHEIM
I couldn’t move, and I’m running a marathon
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