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Today on Tablet, Joan Nathan gives the holy grail: a video of her latke technique along with the last recipe you’ll ever need. Read it and eat.Continue reading "Today on Tablet" at...
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Ellen Grossman On Meeting Jay-Z on the Subway
A video that’s well on its way to becoming a viral phenomenon features a Brooklyn-born 67-year-old artist named Ellen Grossman and Jay-Z, the Brooklyn-born rapper who hardly needs any introduction (but...
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Like the full moon at its glowing peak or the perfectly timed arrival of a train, David Samuels catches that elusive synergistic lightning in a bottle in his conversation with Wojciech Jagielski....
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Israeli Documentaries Makes Oscar Shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday they are done sifting through the 126 documentaries eligible for a 2013 Oscar. Among the fifteen finalists, two are Israeli films....
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The Oddest Hanukkah Pitch Yet
It has TV’s Mark Feuerstein dressed up like a cow, includes the rapping of a Jewish prayer, and is for a charity you might not be familiar with. Continue reading "The Oddest Hanukkah Pitch Yet" at...
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Sundown
• Protesters at a sit-in against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi clashed with Morsi supporters at the presidential palace in Cairo. A number of journalists have reportedly been attacked by members of...
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Move Over, Christmas. Even Non-Jews Have Taken a Shine to Hanukkah.
Last December, Jiming Liang’s son Aidan came home from kindergarten really jazzed about Hanukkah. He was excited to play dreidel and he wanted to buy a menorah. Thing is, Aidan’s not Jewish; he learned...
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How Albert Goldman, John Lennon’s Controversial Biographer, Got the Beatle Right
There are three things that must be said about The Lives of John Lennon, the best-selling and controversial biography of the rock star who was assassinated 32 years ago this weekend. The first is that...
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An Oral History of the Rally To Free Soviet Jewry
(American Jewish Historical Society) Twenty-five years ago today, an estimated quarter of a million Americans, most of them Jews, flooded the Mall in Washington, D.C., to demand freedom for the...
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Daybreak
• U.S. officials told NBC News that Syrian forces have loaded chemical weapons and are awaiting orders from Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to use them against rebel forces. The weapons are said to...
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The Human Rights Watch Internal Battle on Iran
Writing in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, David Feith deftly outlined a debate taking place within the ranks of influential nonprofit group Human Rights Watch (which historically has done some...
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Today on Tablet, Liel Leibovitz finds enlightenment from Albert Goodman’s controversial biography of John Lennon, who was cut down 22 years ago this Saturday. Lennon didn’t just want to be a pop star;...
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A New App for Jewish Friends
Looking for Jewish friends? There’s an app for that. This past Tuesday, an iPhone app was released called GrapeVine: The Jewish Connector. The iTunes store description compares the app to entertainment...
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How We Freed Soviet Jewry
Today on Tablet, we’ve got a spectacular collection of remembrances for the 25th anniversary of the rally to free Soviet Jewry. The oral histories draw from a few of the 250,000 notable participants on...
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Joel Stein's Roadtrip With Babs
This is just as wonderful as you’d expect it to be. Barbra packed a Voss water and a cup of berries for our trip. As we headed out to the driveway toward a brand-new Ford C-MAX hybrid I was borrowing,...
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The Surfboard Menorah
Laguna Beach, California Continue reading "The Surfboard Menorah" at...
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The Specter of Syrian Chemical Weapons
Jon Lee Anderson has the bad news: Whatever the regime’s real intentions with regards to its chemical weapons, the next chapter in Syria will be an ugly one, and before it is all over, many people are...
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What Rachel Weisz’s Happy Life With Daniel Craig Means for Jewish Men
And Lo! So the Lord said, on these winter days most holy shall a child be born; unto the kingdom shall a child be given. And shall he build Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land? Beats the...
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Read ‘Fat,’ a Tablet Original Short Story by Joshua Cohen
Daniel Gordon, July 19, 2009, 16″ x 20′, C-Print, 2009, from Thirty-One Days. (Courtesy of the artist) I should explain—if nothing else, explanation is my birthright. You’re reading the only prose...
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Joseph, the Original DREAMer: How My Bar Mitzvah Portion Taught Me a Lesson...
You never forget your bar mitzvah Torah portion—but it’s really meaningful when it’s still teaching you important lessons 27 years later. My parsha was Bamidbar, or “In the Desert,” the first in the...
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