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Observance

Counting the Days of the Omer, Up or Down

Cancer patients find a new perspective on the present and the future in the Jewish ritual of counting the Omer

By Benjamin W. Corn · April 9, 2012
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United States

Russian Manipulations, Past and Present

Do Russians historically prefer Republicans to win over Democrats?

By Paul Berman · March 27, 2017
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Theater & Dance

Oslo on Broadway

Playwright J.T. Rogers talks about the deputies’ deputies who allow him to tell a complicated diplomatic story, why the play resonates today, and why the 1990s seems so very long ago now

By Tal Kra-Oz · March 29, 2017

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New Doc Details 1970 Refusenik-led Escape to Israel

‘Operation Wedding’ is directed by Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov, whose parents led the Leningrad plane hijacking that was ultimately foiled by the KGB

By Lea Zeltserman · May 24, 2017
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Mike Huckabee Plays ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in Jerusalem

The former governor of Arkansas brought his bass to Israel, apparently

By Jonathan Zalman · May 24, 2017
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Bond. Mrs. Bond. From Kiryat Ono.

How the late Roger Moore’s first wife ended up in a small Israeli town

By Liel Leibovitz · May 24, 2017
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‘Broad City’ Stars To Read ‘Wayne’s World’: Eh-xcellent

Party on Ilana, Party on Abbi

By Jonathan Zalman · May 24, 2017
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Monica Lewinsky on Fox News’ ‘Culture of Exploitation’

In an op-ed for The New York Times, Lewinsky muses on how the late Roger Ailes turned television—via her relationship with Bill Clinton—into a ‘modern coliseum…of shame and vitriol’

By Rachel Shukert · May 23, 2017

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Food

A Dish That’s Perfect for Shavuot—or Breakfast Any Time

Move over, blintzes. A Romanian dish called malai, made from cornmeal and ricotta cheese, is a new holiday favorite.

By Joan Nathan · May 24, 2017
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Observance

The Talmud’s Hot Tub Time Machine

How Moses could know how his people’s story would end before it was even written is in keeping with the spirit of ‘Daf Yomi’

By Adam Kirsch · May 23, 2017
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Observance

Not Just for Hasidim Anymore

The Tanya, a Lubavitcher spiritual text, could be the next big thing for secular self-help

By Rishe Groner · May 22, 2017
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Composting

By Galit Dahan Carlibach

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Middle East

Trump’s Middle East Trip Was a Big, Surprising Success—and the Iranian Regime is Nervous

How the president’s photo-op diplomacy plays in Riyadh, Tehran, Beirut, Jerusalem, and back home in Trumpland

By Lee Smith · May 23, 2017
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Middle East

Aggressive Surge in Israeli Settlement Activity Under Netanyahu Imperils Trump Peace Push (Not)

Because there is no aggressive surge—in fact settlements have not grown in years

By Bennett Ruda · May 22, 2017
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Mother Land

Revisionists (but not Richard Spencer) want the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, my hometown. What they don’t realize is that it’s not the only memorial there.

By Matthew Fishbane · May 21, 2017

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Culture News

Rokhl’s Golden City

Tablet’s new kinda-sorta-weekly column brings you diaspora culture with a Yiddish twist

By Rokhl Kafrissen · May 24, 2017
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Book Reviews

Are Right-Wing American Jewish Settlers Destroying Zionism?

A new history, City on a Hilltop, looks at the huge range of political affiliations that have animated people to occupy land in and around Israel

By David Mikics · May 23, 2017
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Television

Farewell, Israel’s State-Run TV. You Won’t Be Missed.

Saying goodbye to a channel that embodied the Founding Fathers’ authoritarian, socialist beliefs

By Liel Leibovitz · May 19, 2017