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Today on Tablet, Taffy Brodesser-Akner has a message about margarine. First, she looks at the myth that it is better for you than butter. But that was back when we thought saturated fat was the worst...
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Making Pickles With Jami Attenberg
Our friends at Vol. 1 Brooklyn have put together a video of author Jami Attenberg and pickler, gourmand, and Jewish pork scholar Jeffrey Yoskowitz making pickles together. (Get your minds out of the...
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The Odd Story of the Obama-Wiesel Book
A bizarre story came out a few days before the U.S. elections during a Haaretz interview with Elie Wiesel. Much of his time is devoted to writing: “I am always working on something, even now. But I...
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Sundown
• A commander in the Free Syrian Army accused Israel of aiding Bashar Assad in his effort to quell the Syrian uprising. [Times of Israel] • Despite family objections, the exhumation of Yasser Arafat...
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Losing Petraeus Means Losing Washington's Institutional Memory of Iran's...
The still-unraveling scandal that has forced the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has already touched on vital matters of U.S. national security. For starters: Did the spymaster pass...
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John Schwartz’s Memoir ‘Oddly Normal’ Offers Lessons for Parents and Teachers...
Jeanne Schwartz called her husband John at work one afternoon in June 2009. “Joe has taken a lot of pills,” she said. Their 13-year-old son Joe, who’d just come out as gay at his middle school, had...
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Why Israel's Borders Are Heating Up—And What the IDF Can Do About It
This week, Israel found itself targeted yet again: Missile and rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza terrorized Israelis living in towns and cities in the Negev, while on the northern border, the...
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Daybreak
• As it turns out, France of all good countries has recognized the Syrian rebels waging a 20-month-long war against the Assad regime in Syria. They are considering arming the rebels as the government...
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Atlanta Jewish Book Festival Boycotts Peter Beinart
Last we heard from Peter Beinart, the prophet of liberal Zionism was trying to convince American Jews that a tougher tack needed to be taken with Israel and its settler enterprise. The many, many...
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Breaking: IDF Kills Head of Hamas Armed Wing
It’s being reported that the Israeli Air Forces bombed the car of Ahmed Jabari today in Gaza City, killing both him and his son. Jabari’s role in Hamas’ activity is being described as that of an army...
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Today on Tablet
Today on Tablet, Jonathan Spyer writes on how the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the civil war in Syria are bringing Israel perilously close to war with its neighbors. Though civil war has raged in...
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Iron Dome Hits Hamas Rockets Fired at Be'er Sheva
We’ve got updates about events unfolding in Israel and Gaza as Operation Pillar of Defense began today. The Iron Dome battery was said to have intercepted two rockets fired from Gaza that were heading...
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Today on Tablet
After reading John Schwartz’s memoir, Marjorie Ingall reports about how synagogues and Jewish schools can help gay students. There’s a lesson here for all parents—even well-intentioned, open-minded...
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Why Israel Is Calling the Operation in Gaza ‘Pillar of Defense’
Today, the IDF launched Operation Pillar of Defense to stem the tide of rockets from Hamas-controlled Gaza. Where does the name come from? In Hebrew, the campaign has been dubbed עמוד ענן (“Amud Anan,”...
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Gaza Expert Warns of Large Escalation and What Operation Pillar of Defense...
As the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense took aim at Hamas’ leadership and weapons capabilities both on the ground and under, a lot of questions immediately surfaced. What is the likelihood that Israel...
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Everything You Need To Know About Operation Pillar of Defense
On Nov. 14, the Israel Defense Forces targeted and killed Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas strongman and military chief in Gaza, in the opening salvo of Operation Pillar of Defense. The operation comes in...
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Did Writers Fall for a Hate-Crime Hoax in the Murder of Iraqi-American Shaimi...
Less than a month after the controversial killing of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old immigrant who fled her native Iraq in 1993, was found in her...
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Forget Falafel. Forget Shawarma. Oved’s Sabich Gives You ‘Love Inside a Pita.’
While hummus, falafel, and even shawarma are known around the globe, the ultimate Israeli street food—sabich—remains one of the country’s best-kept secrets. Sabich is a pita stuffed with fried...
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The Israel Museum's Blockbuster Hasidism Exhibit Reveals Culture, Not Religion
With all due respect to the impressive collection of circular fur hats, the best and most revealing exhibits at “A World Apart Next Door: Glimpses Into the Life of Hasidic Jews,” the Hasidic-themed...
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Daybreak
• Two men and a woman, who was pregnant, were killed when a Hamas rocket struck a residential building in Kiryat Malachi. An eight-month-old baby was also critically injured in the attack. [Times of...
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