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Munich, Boston, and Israel
An eyewitness to the carnage at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured over 100 yesterday, said that “it was like a scene from Tel Aviv or Baghdad or Pakistan”. But while Tel Aviv and...
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Einstein's Lost Independence Day Speech
On Yom ha-Atzma’ut, Israel’s Independence Day, in 1955, Albert Einstein was scheduled to address the American people on ABC, NBC and CBS. His speech–a passionate plea for peace and defense of the...
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Chabad Rabbi Was at Boston Blast
In the moments that followed the detonation of two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday, Rabbi Mayer Zarchi of Chabad Lubavitch of Boston found himself at the epicenter of chaos....
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NYC Staffer Tweeted as 'Hyman Doodlesack'
#Protip: If you work in a city office, for someone who is running an election campaign, do not set up a Twitter account under a mock-ethnic name and use it to send racist and sexist tweets. Today’s...
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Why First Responders Are Jewish Heroes
There is an image from the yesterday’s nightmare in Boston which I cannot get out of my mind, probably because it’s at once both horrific and holy. As first responders ran towards the victims of the...
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In wake of Boston, a Yeshiva Bomb Threat on Long Island
• Investigators say they have no suspects in yesterday’s Boston Marathon attacks, and are asking people who were in the area to send in photographs and video. A circuit board and the remains of two...
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A Controversial Holocaust Film Helps Poland Face Up to a Complicated Past
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. On a snowy Sunday in March, dozens of parka-clad Poles trickled in between the pews of Warsaw’s Nozyk Synagogue. They removed their coats and greeted...
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A Polish Photographer's Haunting Study of Quarried Jewish Gravestones
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. Between 2008 and 2012, photographer Łukasz Baksik—itinerant documentarian and questing typologist—traversed his native Poland, painstakingly...
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How Stolen Nazi Documents Made Their Way to American Jewish Archives
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. The Tablet Longform newsletter highlights the best longform pieces from Tablet magazine. Sign up here to receive occasional bulletins about fiction,...
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Tablet Is in Poland on the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Welcome to Tablet, Warsaw edition. For the rest of this week, the Tablet staff will be publishing the magazine from the Polish capital, which is playing host to a citywide commemoration of the 70th...
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Daybreak
• Two long-range Grad rockets fired from the Sinai in Egypt struck the port city of Eilat earlier today causing some damage. No injuries were reported. [JPost] • Howard Goldenberg, an Australian doctor...
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Who Owns Jan Karski? The Politics of Memory Hit Poland’s Unsung Hero
It was 1986 or 1987 and—though he was a world-famous emblem of Polish resistance who had snuck into the Warsaw Ghetto twice, had written a seminal account of his wartime experience, and enjoyed...
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The View from the World's Last Fotoplastikon
Inside a small, squat building in Warsaw, past a courtyard populated by stores selling gingerbread houses and other folksy trinkets, across the street from the mall and its Starbucks, lies the world...
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My Other Trip to Poland
As Alana noted earlier, the Tablet staff is in Warsaw this week to witness the marking of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It’s an exciting endeavor that has already included some...
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On a special pre-opening tour of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews yesterday, I found myself wondering how much of the Warsaw Ghetto was still standing after the war. Today, I stumbled on a...
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Sundown
• Multiple news organizations – including the Associated Press, CNN, and Fox News – reported that authorities had arrested a suspect in the Boston bombings. That has turned out to not be true, but...
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My Relative Wrote a Great Shoah Testimony. Here's Why No One Knows of It.
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. “Jews began to write,” wrote Emmanuel Ringleblum, the most famous Warsaw Ghetto chronicler, recalling efforts to document the destruction. Ringleblum...
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My Mother, a Lodz Ghetto Survivor, Wrote 'The Tree of Life,' an Unsung...
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. The three volumes of my mother Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto chronicle in precise, unflinching detail the...
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Popular Polish Crime Novelist Turns Blood Libels Into Page-Turning Thrillers
To read more Tablet in Warsaw coverage, click here. To know a place, look at its detectives: Los Angeles’ lust and greed have hardened Sam Spade into a diamond, and the soggy streets of late-Empire...
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Daybreak
• An all-star group of foreign policy thinkers from President Obama’s first-term team, including Thomas Pickering and Anne-Marie Slaughter, has issued a damning report of the White House’s Iran policy,...
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