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Over Easy by Mimi Pond  A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Café, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California—with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use—and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naïv...

Israel denies report its jet was downed during Syria raid as ‘bogus’ The Israeli military has described reports that one of its jets was brought down while carrying out airstrikes in Syria as “bogus,” amid reports that the country’s air defense systems engaged and downed several “hostile targets” Israeli Defense Forces have refused to comment on the country’s alleged role in the attack, with a spokesperson saying that they’re not commenting on reports in foreign media. Yet the IDF has denied a particular report that it had lost a warplane during the raid on Syria A Syrian security source earlier told RIA Novosti that an Israeli jet was among the targets downed by the air defense. “Our air defense have downed an Israeli jet and four rockets before they could reach their targets,” the source said Meanwhile, Syria TV reported that a missile strike against Syria was deflected, without specifying what the downed objects were. The incident reportedly occurred in the Kiswah area, locate...

Silvia Romano and the Volunteers Like Her: Who They Are, and What They Actually Do This article was originally published on Esquire Italia  (thanks to Annika Gialdini and Paola Natalucci for the translation) Three years ago, after a long time spent working in a number of fields, I went back home. I went back to what I had been doing for a while when I was the age Silvia Romano is now: working in Palestine and in Burkina Faso, and in Italy, too, amongst the homeless, those displaced by earthquakes, and migrants. I went back because I wanted to feel useful, that’s for sure, because I saw how much work was needed, and because I thought I could play a part in making a difference; but I also went back because doing what I do now gives me an opportunity to work closely with people like Silvia I went to Greece to work in refugee camps that housed (and still house, even though most people seem to have forgotten) refugees fleeing war in their homes of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. T...

?Why Does the Torah Describe Babies Born Hands First Dr. Eran Viezel Jacob is famously born with his hand grasping the ankle of his twin brother, Esau. Similarly, Zerah puts his hand out first, before being overshot by his twin brother Peretz. Does this reflect men’s ignorance of childbirth or their familiarity with other realia? The Birth of Esau and Jacob , 1360 – 1370, Master of Jean de Mandeville, Getty Museum An Impossible Birth Story The story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 ends with Tamar giving birth to twins: בראשית לח:כז  וַיְהִי בְּעֵת לִדְתָּהּ וְהִנֵּה תְאוֹמִים בְּבִטְנָהּ.  לח:כח  וַיְהִי בְלִדְתָּהּ וַיִּתֶּן יָד  וַתִּקַּח הַמְיַלֶּדֶת וַתִּקְשֹׁר עַל יָדוֹ שָׁנִי לֵאמֹר זֶה יָצָא רִאשֹׁנָה. לח:כט   וַיְהִי כְּמֵשִׁיב יָדוֹ  וְהִנֵּה יָצָא אָחִיו וַתֹּאמֶר מַה פָּרַצְתָּ עָלֶיךָ פָּרֶץ וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ פָּרֶץ.  לח:ל  וְאַחַר יָצָא אָחִיו אֲשֶׁר עַל יָדוֹ הַשָּׁנִי וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמוֹ זָרַח. Gen 38:27 ...

La Russie opère un retour spectaculaire en Afrique subsaharienne par  Leslie Varenne ( avec un commentaire du  général Dominique Delawarde) En octobre 2016, dans le cadre de l’activité de son Institut, l’IVERIS avait reçu, lors d’une réunion privée, un diplomate russe. Aux questions posées sur la place de la Russie en Afrique, le représentant de la Fédération de Russie, s’était montré un brin nostalgique, déplorant la disparition de l’influence de Moscou sur le continent depuis la fin de la guerre froide. A peine deux ans plus tard, il est difficile d’établir une liste exhaustive des dizaines de coopérations russo-africaines, dans les domaines militaires, énergétiques, miniers ou encore nucléaire, signées ou en passe de l’être.  Le mémorandum paraphé, en juillet 2018 lors du sommet des BRICS à Johannesburg, avec la Communauté de Développement de l’Afrique australe (SADC)  est sans doute l’un des accords les plus marquants. Cette organisation régionale très i...