Here’s what we’re reading: Imagining a Ben & Jerry’s Bernie Sanders flavor; wearing a kippah on the red carpet during awards season; and how David Bowie made it easier to be a “Jewish misfit.”
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen says there’s no real plan for a Bernie Sander flavor — but he knows what it would be. The Forward brings our attention to this on-air interview with MSNBC, in which Cohen immediately knows off the top of his head what “Bernie’s Yearning” would be like:
When you open up the pint, there’s this big disk of chocolate on the top, covering the entire top, and below it is just plain mint ice cream … And the disk of chocolate represents the 90 percent of the wealth that has gone to the top 10 percent over the last ten years. The way you eat it is that you take your spoon — you whack that big chocolate disk into a bunch of little pieces and you mix it around and there you have it: Bernie’s Yearning.
Geza Rohrig brings his kippah along to the red carpet. The Hungarian actor who starred in “Son of Saul,” which just won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, brought his kippah to Cannes and the Golden Globes — a rarity on the red carpet. Rohrig is a true religious Jew, as the Times of Israel notes:
[Rohrig is] the founder of an underground punk band who moved to New York from Budapest, studied in a Hasidic yeshiva in Israel and then graduated from the Conservative Movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
“David Bowie Made It OK To Be a Wandering Jewish Misfit,” declares the headline to a piece by Jay Michaelson in The Forward, one of an endless spate of David Bowie remembrances going around in the wake of the artist’s death. He notes that Bowie’s wandering, ever-transforming approach to life is something for Jews to admire:
I’ve always admired those whose lives are journeys rather than destinations. I think of Biblical forbears like Joseph — favorite son, bratty brother, outcast, slave, prisoner, prophet, advisor, ruler, ancestor. Or David: shepherd, beautiful boy, musician, warrior, lover, king. Or Ruth, who is willing to relinquish all she knows for love.