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This Week In Jewcy: An Amerian Living In Ukraine Finds a Special Antique Menorah
Each Friday we bring you a look at what’s going on over at Jewcy.com, our partner site. This week, an American Jew living in Ukraine comes across an antique menorah and feels an unexpected connection...
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Breaking: Avigdor Lieberman to Resign
Less than a day after being indicted on the charges of breaching the public trust and fraud, small charges given the severity of wrongdoings alleged during a sixteen-year-long investigation, Israeli...
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Peter Salovey’s ascension to the presidency of Yale University, historically and foundationally not the most warm or Jewish of institutions, was yet another impressive flourish for the Soloveitchik...
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Gaza Fashion Alert: Rockets!
Following the recent conflict in Gaza, there is a new fashion trend sweeping through Gaza and the West Bank. Rocket-maaaaania! What started as a weapon fired indiscriminately on a civilian population,...
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Today on Tablet, our theater critic looks at two new plays that tackle assimilation and identity. The plays have much in common. Both are taut, well-crafted compressions of ambitious themes in which an...
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Some Useful Reading on Guns and Gun Control
As the reports about the heinous school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut continue to stream in, here are some compelling takes of the non-speculative sort. At the Washington...
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Scroll Verse: Jake Marmer
The Scroll is adding to our poetry output with Scroll Verse, a recurring feature that presents the works of Jewish poets–or in some cases, poets who write on Tablet themes or have Jewish souls. Our...
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Sundown
• As the death toll in the Newtown, Connecticut shooting rises to 27, including 18 children, James Fallows has some smart words on the tragedy. [Atlantic] • The CIA declassified the damage assessment...
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Vladimir Nabokov's Surprising Friendship With an Israeli Ambassador
One day in 2000, Arieh Levavi took me into his rather cold apartment on the Ha-Palmach Street in old New Jerusalem. The house was in a garden and had a balcony overlooking the trees, which were...
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Joel Meyerowitz on How Robert Frank and Catskills Comedy Made Him the...
Joel Meyerowitz has had many careers as a photographer over the past 50 years. He first made a name for himself at 24 as a New York City street photographer in the tradition of Robert Frank. A few...
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Joan Nathan’s Jewish Family Marked Christmas With Its Own Recipes, From...
There is something I must confess: I have always been a closet Christmas lover. I love to sing carols, I love admiring Christmas trees, and I have always envied what I imagine as a storybook day filled...
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Daybreak
• The Times reports on how members of local clergy, including rabbis, are working together to serve the fragile community of Newtown, Connecticut, in the aftermath of Friday’s horrific shooting. [NYT]...
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Are Jews Equally Unsafe in Denmark and Jordan?
Last week, two different stories about two entirely different places came across the wire that confused and startled me a little bit. The first one is about Jordan, where Jewish and Israeli tourists...
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The U.S. Should Emulate Israel's Gun Culture
Why? In the days since 27 innocents, most of them children, were murdered in Sandy Hook Elementary School, all have been asking that question, trying to make sense of an ultimately senseless act....
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Today on Tablet, Liel Leibovitz writes on why those who talk about Israel’s stark lack of shootings–despite the high number of guns–has more to do with gun culture in Israel than gun laws. To receive a...
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NBA Commish David Stern Is Apparently the Grinch
Today in bizarre innuendos, Bruce Jenkins at the San Francisco Chronicle suggests that the reason the National Basketball Association schedules games on Christmas doesn’t have anything to do with its...
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Today on Tablet, a friendship that might surprise you: Vladimir Nabokov and Arieh Levavi, Israel’s ambassador to the Switzerland. More specifically, though, Levavi was the Israeli ambassador to...
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Ephraim Mirvis Named UK Chief Rabbi
According to the Twitter machine, which is known for its speed more than its accuracy, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has been named the new chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. Following a long process, in which...
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Tablet Fiction Makes the Longform List
One of Tablet’s newest features is our original fiction series, which in just four short installments has given writers like Justin Taylor, Emily Firetog, and Joshua Cohen a place on the interwebs for...
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Hal Schaefer (1925-2012)
Hal Schaefer, who arranged music for films and served as a vocal coach for the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Betty Grable and Judy Garland, used to perform professionally at hotels in the...
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