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Kevin Youkilis to Join the Yankees
In what’s quickly becoming the most hackneyed act of baseball treason, former Red Sox first baseman and tribesman Kevin Youkilis has reportedly joined the ranks of the New York Yankees. The aging...
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Today on Tablet, Joseph Winkler reports on Joey Allaham’s kosher revolution, which is drawing in A-list celebrities in, Jew and Gentile alike. For the past 12 years, Allaham’s now-iconic Prime Grill in...
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Jedi Is 7th Most Popular English Religion
Feel the force, those English do: Newly released census data shows that 176,632 people in England and Wales identify as Jedi Knights, making followers of Yoda practitioners of the most popular of the...
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Germany Votes to Protect Circumcision
After nearly six months of public debate, indictments, lawsuits, prohibitions, and other wrangling, German lawmakers affirmed the right of parents to have their sons circumcised. This ends the sad...
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Sundown
• Dates, conditions, locations, guest lists! Iran and the EU are slowly ironing out the details for the next round of nuclear talks. [Al-Monitor] • Pedro Hernandez, the man charged with the 1979 murder...
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Are Your Favorite Christmas Specials Secretly Jewish and Gay?
Rankin and Bass: If their names aren’t familiar, their work surely is. Turn on your TV set this time of year, and you’ll see it, playing in an endless loop: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the...
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Fouad Ajami: Are Dictators or Elected Islamists Better for Israel?
It took Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to crystallize the enduring tension highlighted by regimes that conduct themselves responsibly abroad while violating people’s liberties at home. Morsi may be...
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• Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov gave an unusually candid and grim prognosis of Bashar Assad’s chances in the 21-month-long civil war. In announcing a plan for the evacuation of...
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In Defense of Sandler’s “Hallelujah”: The Comic Wasn’t Butchering Leonard...
Because I’ve spent the last two years writing a book about Leonard Cohen, yesterday night, when Adam Sandler took the stage at Madison Square Garden for the Sandy Relief concert and began his humorous...
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A Tribute to David Berman, The Silver Jews' Genius of Free Association
1. I taught David Berman’s Actual Air the other day. Teaching books that really matter to you is always risky. Someone, or everyone, might dislike the book. This puts you in an even worse position than...
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Today on Tablet, Fouad Ajami writes on the new questions about the nature of democracy brought about by the events of the Arab Spring. Regarding Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and soon enough Syria, the...
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Breaking: Avigdor Lieberman Indicted
After months of speculation, state prosecutors announced that Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman–Israel’s biggest bull in the China shop–has been indicted on a breach of trust charge. Here’s...
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Today on Tablet, Thomas Beller takes a look at David Berman, an elegant poet and the front man of the group The Silver Jews. We think Beller does him justice. There is a genius to defying expectations....
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Joe Lieberman Says Goodbye to the Senate
Senator Joe Lieberman said goodbye to the Senate yesterday on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that handed the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000. The 12 years between Al Gore’s last stand...
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Richard Perry's Pet Projects: The New Owner of Barney's Has Also Entered the...
The New York Times magazine just put up a terrific story about Richard Perry, a relatively retiring gazillionaire whose hedge fund bought out Barney’s last May. Because it’s by Cathy Horyn, the paper’s...
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• Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn her candidacy to replace Hillary Clinton as the next secretary of state. Citing the loud Republican opposition to the very...
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Jewish and Muslim Assimilation in New Productions of 'My Name Is Asher Lev'...
Disgraced and My Name Is Asher Lev, two ambitious, compelling new off-Broadway plays, explore the limits of assimilation and reach radically different conclusions. In the case of Asher Lev, a story of...
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Can an Islamic College Funded by Jews Succeed in Promoting a Moderate Vision...
In a village straddling Israel and the West Bank, an Arab college is trying to walk the tightest of ropes: reinterpreting the study of Islam for the modern age, and doing so on the dime of the Jewish...
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Yale President Uncovers Family Lineage With Jesus-Loving Rabbi Soloveitchik
Peter Salovey’s recent appointment to the presidency of Yale University, founded by Congregationalist ministers, was cause for celebration for those who admire the Soloveitchik dynasty, an illustrious...
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Daybreak
• Palestinian protestors marched and threw stones at Israeli targets for the third day in a row following the shooting of a Palestinian teenager who had reportedly brandished a toy gun during a heated...
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