Daily Archives: May 6, 2017
10,000 Hard-Boiled Eggs and the Art of Pedro Friedeberg
Most Sundays, Pedro Friedeberg spends $50 to $100 buying junk in La Lagunilla, Mexico City’s massive flea market. Whatever he happens to find there—let’s say, a midget-sized Superman figure or a Simpsons-themed chess-set—will either...
Genesis Prize cancels award ceremony over plight of Syrians
The Genesis Prize will not hold its annual award ceremony at the request of 2017 recipient Anish Kapoor, a refugee advocate who deemed a celebration inappropriate in light of the worsening Syria crisis.
Kapoor, an...
Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty’ Executive Order Should Scare The Bejesus Out of the Jews
Be careful what you wish for.
For years, the Christian Right, abetted by some Orthodox Jewish allies, has claimed that there’s a war on religion in America. Sometimes it’s the “War on Christmas,” sometimes it’s...
Netanyahu Slams Abbas for Lying to Trump
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, at a joint press conference Wednesday with US President Donald Trump in Washington, claimed that children raised in the PA-administered areas of Judea and Samaria are taught values...