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I Gave a Stranger a Jewish Funeral. But Was He Jewish? Dead Men Tell No Tales.
In the earliest morning minyan, with the day still shrouded in mist, a gray-bearded man lumbered to the front of the shul and stood before the Holy Ark. “This morning we have a meis mitzvah: A man has...
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Obese and Obsessed: Jami Attenberg’s ‘The Middlesteins’ Shows Us the Way We...
The Middlesteins: The name of the family at the heart of Jami Attenberg’s new novel makes an audacious quasi-sociological claim. Here, it promises, we will see the representative American Jewish clan,...
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Ben Affleck's 'Argo' and America's 40-Year U.S. Embassy Crisis
The popular reception of Argo, the new Ben Affleck movie about the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover in Iran, is perhaps evidence that the 444-day hostage-taking still occupies a dark corner of our national...
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Daybreak
• The presidential debate had its share of dramatic moments including a dust-up about the Benghazi attack. Israel and Iran were mentioned just once in a Middle East laundry-list and many pundits...
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Article 19
Enough of the Heartland nonsense. The presidential debate two weeks ago in Denver put more people to sleep than a Terrence Malick film. Weighted down in part by President Obama’s listlessness, the...
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Tablet's Future of Jewish Food Panel
For those of you who missed out, last weekend we hosted an event with Mile End Deli and ABC Home on the Future of Jewish Food. The event featured some nosh, some drink, and some conversation with many...
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Today on Tablet
Today on Tablet, Adam Kirsch, our reigning book brain, chimes in on The Middlesteins, a new book by Jami Attenberg that reflects both Jewish life and the way we live now in a food-obsessed culture. The...
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A Look at Tablet's New Mobile Site
We’re thrilled to announced that we’ve refreshed our mobile site and given it a new look. So for those of you who read on-the-go, be it on your iPhone, Blackberry, smartphone, Teddy Ruxpin, iPad (or...
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Today on Tablet
When a man who no relatives died and was left in a state morgue for months, Simon Yisrael Feuerman and his community provided him a Jewish burial. A meis mitzvah is a corpse with no one to bury it. Woe...
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George Friedman (1935-2012)
From the smells of it, George Friedman had a pretty charmed life. He was a Brooklyn kid, attending high school at Brooklyn Tech in Ft. Greene and graduating from Brooklyn College with a degree in...
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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Is Starting a 'Super PAC' for 2012 Races
Candidates for office who promote Mayor Bloomberg’s three Gs—gun control, gay rights, and pedaGogy or education reform (alright, I tried)—may be receiving funds from the billionaire’s newly formed...
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Sundown
• A Bangladeshi man was arrested for attempting to detonate fake explosives purchased from an undercover agent at the Federal Reserve in Lower Manhattan. Following his arrest, the man praised Osama Bin...
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The Israeli Arab Who Bucked Convention by Sending Three Sons to the IDF
Yousef Juhja’s cell phone number ends, coincidentally, with the digits 1948. It’s the year of his birth and that of the Jewish state—and for most of Juhja’s fellow Israeli Arabs, the year of the Nakba,...
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What Omri Casspi, the First Israeli NBA Player, Is Learning From Tamir...
Most of the 130 kids at the Omri Casspi basketball camp in Cleveland are not particularly gifted athletes. After being called for fouls, the young kids continue to double—and even triple—dribble. They...
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Sarah Silverman’s Political Videos Do Obama a Disservice
Last week, an Orthodox rabbi named Yaakov Rosenblatt took to the pages of the Jewish Press and published an open letter to Sarah Silverman, criticizing the comedienne for her recent slew of politically...
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Daybreak
• Janine Di Giovanni writes eloquently about how the Syrian civil war has finally breached Damascus, the Syrian capital and Bashar Assad’s center of power, which had seemingly been immune to the...
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Suggested Chapters for Kofi Annan's New Book
How does the promotional push for Kofi Annan’s new book begin? Well, he says, if there’s one lesson the former Secretary-General of the United Nations has learned it’s this: “You come to realize...
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Today on Tablet
Today on Tablet, Rebecca Meiser writes on the fate of the Jewish Jordan Tamir Goodman. Once hyped to be the next big thing, Goodman now teaches basketball to kids who idolize another Jewish basketball,...
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Now Online: Einstein on the Beach; Revisting German Jewish History
Exciting news from the world of digital archiving. If you never thought digital archiving would have exciting news, then check this out. The Leo Baeck Institute is bringing online a ton of its archives...
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Sarah Silverman’s sarcastic and biting critiques of the American right wing and her warm embraces of President Obama have frequently made ripples in political culture. However, as Liel Leibovitz...
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