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We’re still not really sure who Taylor Swift is, except that we know Kanye West isn’t a fan, and we have no idea at all who Katy Perry is, but apparently the former went to a birthday party for the latter, at which she had her picture taken with a dude wearing a swastika, and ...

On the fourth day of the week, Tablet Magazine brings you the fourth part of Douglas Century’s five-part investigation into the current state of Israeli organized crime (here are parts 1; 2; and 3). Accompanying Century throughout his reporting was photographer Antonin Kratochvil, and accompanying Century’s article today is a slideshow of Kratochvil’s photographs of ...

In 2006, Douglas Century traveled to Israel with photographer Antonin Kratochvil, to report on the country’s shifting organized crime scene. Guided by a former mafia soldier named Ilan, they were shown Tel Aviv’s alleyways and sidestreets, its seedy clubs and the back rooms—all the often-invisible places where the mob goes about its business. The photos here are snapshots from their visit to Israel’s underworld.

I was walking with my 7-year-old son past the 17th hole of the Woodmere Club’s golf course, on Long Island, and I was surprised to find a Star of David carved into a stone used as part of a retaining wall. I looked closer, and discovered hundreds of gravestones, many carved with Jewish names, used as embankment material. The club insists the stones—none of which seem to contain dates, only names and symbols—were extra granite, donated many years ago by long-dead club members. Here, for the first time, is a collection of my photos.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wasn’t giving a Nazi salute when a Getty Images photographer snapped him for the picture now displayed on the CNN.com homepage, was he? Some alternative theories:
• “Guys, shhh.”
• “Here we go, yo.”
• “By the power of Jesus, I command these demons to leave your body.”
• “No, I think the right side needs ...