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...Others are taking note. Last week, Gavrilova's cousin called from the Siberian city of Irkutsk to ask if Pikalyovo was "leading a civil war" and to say that the situation was similar in her city, where workers were holding a hunger strike over unpaid wages at the local pulp mill, also owned by Basic Element. This time it took no prodding from Putin for Deripaska to announce plans to pay out some $2.8 million in back wages to about 2,000 workers. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
Thanks to other high-profile rabbis, such as Capers Funnye, the African-American leader of Chicago's Beth Shalom B'Nei Zaken synagogue - and First Lady Michelle Obama's second cousin - mainstream American Jewry appears ready to embrace leaders like Stanton. And with African Americans becoming increasingly drawn to Judaism, in part because of the shrinking perception that they are not welcomed by white Jews, the IJCR's Tobin say the timing could not be better for American Jewry to finally reconsider who and what makes a Jew. "Due to assimilation and intermarriage, the stability of the American Jewish community...
...followed every twist and turn of the five weeks of voting that just ended in India, during which 415 million voters in megacities, small towns and tiny villages came together to elect a new government. I tagged along at one of Rahul Gandhi's campaign rallies, and watched his cousin Varun's inflammatory speeches on YouTube. I calculated the anti-incumbency factor and tracked the post-Mumbai-attacks backlash vote. Counting day - a holiday in India - was dramatic. By the afternoon of May 16, the alliance led by the Congress Party, which had been expected to squeak through...
...Everest in 2005, he suffered a heart attack 1,000 ft. from the summit (29,029 ft., or 8,848 m, above sea level). Three years later, exhaustion foiled a second attempt at virtually the same height. But on May 21, the 65-year-old British adventurer (and third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes) finally scaled Everest, making him the first man to conquer the world's highest peak and cross the North and South Poles unaided. "I get vertigo and don't like looking down," he says of his time at the summit...
...opportunity for outsiders to get a glimpse of the House at its most uninhibited with its Spring Formal. FlyBy was in attendance, and in the end we came to the conclusion that while Kirkland’s spring gala is not quite the family affair that its winter cousin is, Kirklanders will be Kirklanders and lit was as good of a time to see some Kirkland-on-Kirkland love as any. Check out FlyBy’s “live” blog of the formal after the jump...