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A great escape, a really long book, and more
Today in Tablet Magazine, we mark Yom HaShoah with Gila Lyons’s story of Sonya Oshman, who dramatically escaped from a Polish work camp in 1943. Liel Leibovitz takes a step back and ponders what he’s learned writing about the Torah and Tanakh each week over the past two years. The Scroll reminds you not to forget Yom HaShoah, and not to forget, period.
Daybreak: Bibi Bows Out of D.C. Summit
Plus Russia takes foot off Iran’s gas, and more in the news
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
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- The Jewish Week
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- Mondoweiss
- NJ Jewish News/Kaplan's Korner
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- Politico/Burns & Haberman
- Slate
- The Times of Israel
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Rudy Giuliani's New Low
By James Kirchick — 'America's Mayor,' who once called for U.S. intervention in Kosovo, is now consulting for Serbian nationalistsStay Out of It
By Hillel Y. Levin — On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issuesThe End of the Jewish Left
By Adam Kirsch — Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist allianceIsraeli Cheese Goes Artisanal
By Joan Nathan — A year after the ‘cottage-cheese protests,’ Israel's boutique cheese-makers face a busy ShavuotHasidic Woman Sparks To-Do on the Internet
By Sara Ivry —Post about the traditionally Orthodox and women stirs debate
The Treblinka Gold Rush
Worry Like a Jewish Mother
Mitt's Lost Jewish Love
Rallying Against the Internet
Daybreak: Etan Patz Killer Found?
A Famous Jew Intermarries, and Nobody Notices
The Grapes of Rap
A Convert’s Bible Stories
Yiddish, Translated on a Jumbotron
Hasidic Writers, Plugged In
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.





