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As the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Is Mobbed, Egypt's Last Jews Prepare for High...
Outside of Israel, the Jewish community of Alexandria is perhaps the Mediterranean’s oldest, dating back to Alexander the Great’s founding of the city in 332 B.C. But this year, there may not even be...
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Apology Expected: Teach Your Kids To Apologize, and Mean It
In an election year, it’s not easy to be your best self. Here we are, urging children to think about being moral and ethical, to consider the way we treat our fellow human beings, to inhabit the spirit...
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Daybreak
● Filmmaker Sam Bacile, a self-described “Israeli Jew,” has gone into hiding after his film–promoted by Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones–sparked riots in Egypt and Libya that led to the death of four...
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Four Staff Members, Including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Killed in Attack...
Many of us are waking up to the news of the disgusting attack on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which took the life of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three of his staff members....
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In the wake of the attack on the American embassy in Cairo, Lee Smith talks about Egyptian Jews who have no rabbi to lead them this Rosh Hashanah. Check it out here. Continue reading "Today on Tablet"...
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Professional Sports and High Holidays Tangle
The JTA is reporting that the Chicago White Sox organization has changed the start time of its September 25 game against the Cleveland Indians because of Yom Kippur: The Sept. 25 game will now start at...
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Today on Tablet, the always insightful Marjorie Ingall writes on using the High Holidays as an opportunity to teach children how to apologize meaningfully. Check it out here. Continue reading "Today on...
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Figuring Out The Identity of Sam Becile, Alleged Anti-Islam Filmmaker
The identity of Sam Bacile, reportedly the creator of anti-Muslim film that caused a deadly firestorm Libya last night, remains a mystery. In reports earlier today, this is how Bacile was described:...
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Brad Pitt to Direct Film Based on 2001 Book About IBM's Role During the...
Out of Tinseltown (assuming people still call it that) comes the news that Brad Pitt will be taking his wonkish talents from the intricacies of Moneyball, his film about baseball sabermetrics to the...
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Details emerge about the man behind controversial anti-Islam film
This morning, headlines around the world declared that an anti-Islam video on YouTube had incited angry mobs at U.S. embassies in Cairo and Benghazi. The violent riot in Libya resulted in the murder of...
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Sundown
● Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has stepped forward to admit a role in managing the company that produced the anti-Muhammad film that allegedly sparked the attacks in Libya and Egypt yesterday. [HuffPo] ●...
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Tablet Magazine Picks the Best Apples and Honey to Help You Have a Sweet New...
We here at Tablet are a picky bunch when it comes to food, so when we got to thinking about Rosh Hashanah, the tradition of dipping apples in honey to symbolize a sweet new year presented its problems....
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The Great Epic Poem of the Holocaust, and the Generous, Tragic Hero Who Wrote It
This essay, by the Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb, appeared in Yiddish in 1991 in Di goldene keyt. This is the first publication of the English version—which was translated by Rosenfarb, who died last...
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Advice From Dr. Ruth, Mayim Bialik, and 25 More for a Meaningful Year
To celebrate Rosh Hashanah 5773, Tablet Magazine asked writers, artists, musicians, politicians, and others to name one thing they believe is necessary to do in the next 12 months to have a meaningful...
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Blame the Killers—Not a YouTube Movie—for the Murder of the U.S. Ambassador...
People used to talk a lot about the world before and after Sept. 11. As in, back before the deadly attacks on that morning in 2001, we operated under a set of naive assumptions about national security,...
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Daybreak
● Additional anti-American protests have broken out in Cairo and Tehran as well as Saana–the capital of Yemen–where rioters breached the embassy grounds, looting the building, and replacing the...
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Article 18
In the aftermath of the heinous attacks on the U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya (attacks, which seem to be spreading), we’ve put together a collection of different takes on the situations, primarily in...
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Our inimitable literary critic Adam Kirsch takes a look at Marco Roth’s touching memoir about his father’s battle with AIDS, which was waged in secret at a time when the disease was highly stigmatized....
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This Week in Trayf News: A Battle Over Swine Semantics
The New York Daily News (unsurprisingly) picked up this story out of St. Louis. John Cunningham, 43, was having a heated discussion early Monday with his maternal uncle, Lessie Lowe, 44, about the pork...
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Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, we’ve assembled a great spread of insights from writers, artists, musicians, politicians, and others about their resolutions for the next year. The names will blow you away, the...
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