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Everything you ever wanted to know about the holiday
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Parts of the Whole

In the reflective period of the High Holidays, Tablet Magazine—together with rabbis and writers—considers the debate over Jewish identity and makes an argument for inclusiveness
By Alana Newhouse

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Founding Document

A new book argues for the enduring significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration
By Adam Kirsch

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Life & Religion

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    On One Foot

    A new Nextbook Press biography of Hillel makes clear that the rabbi's words and thoughts—though millennia old—resonate today
    By Joseph Telushkin

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    United State

    A recent contretemps in Israel served to underscore the surprising and recent cohesion among the branches of U.S. Judaism
    By Jonathan D. Sarna

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    Visiting the Dead

    A visit to New York's Mount Carmel Cemetery highlights how far American Jews have drifted from their immigrant ancestors, geographically and ritually
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In the Rearview

Novelist Darin Strauss talks about living with, and atoning for, a terrible car accident
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    Self-Made Golem

    Simon Wiesenthal, painted in a new biography as a fame-seeking myth-maker, is also the man who insisted that the world face up to the Holocaust
    By Ron Rosenbaum

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    The Arab Lobby

    A new book explores the ‘petrodiplomatic complex’ and Saudi influence on U.S. foreign policy
    By Lee Smith

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    Leap of Faith

    The neo-Nazi-hunter who solved the D.B. Cooper hijacking case
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First Blood

Was Meir Kahane’s murder al-Qaida’s earliest attack on U.S. soil?
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    The rabbi who co-officiated at the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding on his journey to accepting intermarriage
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    Simon Wiesenthal, painted in a new biography as a fame-seeking myth-maker, is also the man who insisted that the world face up to the Holocaust
  • Beyond Repair
    Is tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of “healing the world,” as dangerous as David Horowitz says it is?
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