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What’s perhaps most impressive about Tweet the Exodus is that the group of rabbis, led by Rabbi Oren Hayon, behind it have set up not just a central feed containing provocative quotations, entertaining links, and, eventually, the story of the Jews’ departure from Egypt, but that they’ve set up a whole bunch of other ...

For more than a century, Moses has exercised the American imagination. The stuff of biography and fiction as well as advertisements, he figured in one late 19th-century sermon as a Greek god, but better; in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountains, he was a voodoo priest, and in the Metropolitan Casualty Life Insurance ...

It was Friday afternoon, and Pancho Villa had to go to the bank. He climbed into his 1919 Dodge roadster with his men and his gold, and made his way to the nearby town of Parral. En route, the assassins lay waiting, seven of them. As they saw the black car huffing its way around ...

It’s August, dear readers, and the temperature, at least here in Manhattan, has climbed into registers more befitting a slow-cooking boeuf bourguignon approaching its third hour than a human being trying to make it through the day.
The political climate is even hotter. Every town seems to hold town hall meetings, and in every town hall ...

Dear Readers,
For the past few weeks, I’ve been commenting here on Moses’s farewell speech to the Israelites, marveling at how the nation’s fading father managed to vividly retell the story of the nation’s tortured past as well as admonish the people to remain faithful in the future.
As his speech nears its end in this week ...

In Tablet Magazine today, Mayim Bialik, who starred in the early-‘90s series Blossom, relays how her religiously-motivated modest dress can conflict with her career. Douglas Century wraps up his saga on Israel’s criminal underground (previous sections: 1; 2; 3; 4). Betcha can’t read just one of Liel Leibovitz’s articles today: please enjoy both his ...

On Tablet Magazine today, Senior Editor Michael Weiss explains how the suppression and unrest that followed Iran’s June presidential elections have pushed President Obama’s policy toward that country to resemble President Bush’s. Pondering this week’s parasha, which depicts Moses and the Israelites at the Promised Land’s gates, Liel Liebovitz to considers whether any of us ...

One of the many ridiculous moments in the thoroughly laughable new movie Terminator Salvation features a stand-off between the marvelous Michael Ironside as General Ashdown, the leader of humanity’s revolt against its futuristic robotic oppressors, and the dour Christian Bale as John Connor, a constipated-sounding commando who many trust is mankind’s sole savior.

As throngs of Iranians take to the streets to question the validity of the recent election in their country, allow me to add one more name to the list of men in contention for the Islamic republic’s top job: Woody Allen.
Young, reform-minded Iranians can ask for no better leader. They should adopt as their battle ...

I remember my prom night well: I spent it locked up in the principal’s office. I was placed there after being apprehended while trying to sabotage the school’s public announcement system during the principal’s farewell address. Later, when the principal, a pasty and soft-spoken pedagogue of German extraction, asked why I did it, I unleashed ...