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Today on Tablet
Eat and love but don’t pray, and more
Today in Tablet Magazine, parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall takes the film Eat Pray Love (and the book on which it’s based) to task for its misuse of prayer as a feel-good solution to your problems. Today’s Vox Tablet covers fin de siècle Russian-Jewish composers who attempted to create a Jewish national music inspired by the folk stuff coming out of the Pale of Settlement. Josh Lambert offers his weekly column on forthcoming Jewish books. The Scroll, suffice to say, won’t be seeing the Julia Roberts movie.
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
