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Personal History

God of the Poconos

Finding religion at sleepaway camp

By Elissa Altman · June 22, 2016
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Film

A Conversation With Mel Brooks

2,000-year-old writer, director, and producer is still blazing saddles at age 90

By Ivor Davis · June 28, 2016
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United States

Anti-Russia

Liberty and servitude in the new philo-czarist age

By Paul Berman · January 11, 2017

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Happy 91st Birthday, Mel Brooks!

You forever rule

By Jonathan Zalman · June 28, 2017
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What to Read This Summer

Tablet staffers share their favorite fiction and non-fiction reads

By Sophie Aroesty · June 27, 2017
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What Is the Job of a Rabbi in the Pulpit?

To urge unity, not division, through healthy debate

By Chaim Steinmetz · June 27, 2017
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All Hail the Queen

Sasha Velour, channeling Whitney Houston, takes home the crown on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

By Gabriela Geselowitz · June 27, 2017
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A Synagogue, Built to Last, in the ‘DIY’ Spirit of Maine

Congregation Beth El in Bangor has created a number of functional and decorative pieces for its prayer space, from a bima and Torah ark to a ‘tree of life’

By Sophie Aroesty · June 27, 2017

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Observance

What Happens When a Dying Man Doesn’t Die

A question of morals for a loopy Coen-brothers script, in this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study

By Adam Kirsch · June 27, 2017
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Family

Losing My Daughter

A father’s story

By Adam Burnat · June 26, 2017
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Food

Pitas, Pride, and Prejudice

Israeli cuisine is the all the rage in New York these days. But it’s missing one key ingredient: nationalism.

By Liel Leibovitz · June 23, 2017
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Festival of the Departed

By Susan Daitch

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Middle East

Is Israel Catching Up Too Late to a Major Strategic Threat from Iran?

The Jewish state confronts the possibility of a new front—or two—in its ongoing conflict with a hostile regional power on the rise

By Judith Miller · June 27, 2017
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Middle East

Hezbollah’s Environmental Warriors

Iran Week: Are trees planted in Lebanon along the Israeli border really for ‘nature reserves’?

By Tony Badran · June 27, 2017
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Europe

Putin Uses a Wave of Cyber-Attacks and a Political Assassination in Ukraine to Send a Message to the West

Military intelligence officer killed by car bomb in Kiev

By Vladislav Davidzon · June 27, 2017

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Culture News

‘All-of-a-Kind Family,’ Time Travel, and Frozen in Time

Rokhl’s Golden City: What decomposing unearthed silent-film stock has to say to Yiddishists

By Rokhl Kafrissen · June 28, 2017
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Book Reviews

The Iranian Intellectual Who Inspired the Islamic Revolution and Admired Israel

Iran Week: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s astonishing and paradoxical account of his 1963 travels in the Holyland, newly translated and reissued as ‘The Israeli Republic’

By Scott Abramson · June 26, 2017
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Visual Art & Design

Was Florine Stettheimer a Good Painter?

The Jewish Museum’s current show gives viewers a second chance to ‘see her light,’ and to see the socialite and troubled daughter behind the art

By Frances Brent · June 22, 2017