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Isaac Sutton’s home, which he shares with his wife and three children in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, is a whimsical overlap of the natural world and artistic enterprise. In his cozy, carpeted living room, glass sculptures, vases, and lamps from different eras are grouped into clusters of greens, reds, and blues; his dining room ...

Today in Tablet Magazine, Daphne Merkin takes a look at Rebecca Rubin, the American Girl series’s first permanent-collection Jewish doll. Senior Writer Allison Hoffman profiles Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, a solidly middle-class hamishe New York couple who somehow turned themselves into formidable contemporary art collectors. For those in more of a watching than reading mood, ...

• Turkeys aren’t the only animals that should be shaking in their boots this week. Israel and the Jewish community in Senegal have donated 99 sheep to needy Muslim families there to sacrifice for the holiday of Tabaski, which marks Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael, as “a symbolic gesture between Israel and Senegal, ...

• The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council plans to meet in December to authorize current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to continue running the government along with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in order to stave off the problem of postponed elections and Abbas’s declaration that he will not seek another term. [WPost]
• Hungarian riot police busted ...

Tablet Magazine collects five Jewish thinkers to answer the question embodied in the title of Norman Podhoretz’s new book: why are Jews liberals? Karen Rosenberg reviews “Reinventing Ritual,” the fall exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum; a slideshow accompanies. To prepare you for Rosh Hashanah, Mimi Sheraton looks at the history of honey and shares ...

• An aide says that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not resume talks with Israel without a full settlement freeze, no exceptions: “Mr. Obama, we love you … but I am sorry this is not enough to bring us to the peace process.” [Reuters]
• Former Israeli P.M. Ehud Olmert has been formally indicted on charges ...

A trove of work by the late German Jewish artist Erich Wolfsfeld, who lost his teaching job in Berlin in 1935 and moved three years later to England, turned up this week in the Liverpool attic of his 83-year-old stepson. Max Block, a recent widower, had gone up to empty the room before readying the ...

It’s easy to dismiss the sprawling autobiography alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn posted on his own website (now offline) as the work of a wingnut. It’s hard to see someone who always writes “JEW” in all-caps as a reliable source, even to their own life story, and already some of his claims—including the ...