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Today on Tablet
Non-Jewish writers take on the big topics
Novelist Margaret Drabble holds forth on the roles of Jews—and anti-Semitism—in British culture, from Shakespeare to Howard Jacobson to the BBC. Adam Kirsch reviews Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, a new memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian Kai Bird about growing up all over the Middle East with a diplomat father, and finds it more historical than personal. And here on The Scroll, we’ll have updates of all sorts.
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
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
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.
