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23 May 2022

22 Iyyar 5782

Wingnuts vs. Factions

The two theories of American government—one fantasy, one reality

byMichael Lind

Without a Prescription

How a rabbinic parable led one psychiatrist to reconsider his impulse to medicate patients

byDaniel Bergner

Tel Aviv on the Thames

Israeli and Middle Eastern restaurants change what’s on the menu in London

byLeah Koenig

Without a Prescription

How a rabbinic parable led one psychiatrist to reconsider his impulse to medicate patients

byDaniel Bergner

Tel Aviv on the Thames

Israeli and Middle Eastern restaurants change what’s on the menu in London

byLeah Koenig

Tablet Magazine’s Printable Weekly Digest

A selection of our best articles from this week for printer-friendly, distraction-free reading. Issue 17: Hezbollah in Paraguay, America’s big post-Cold War mistakes, a kitchen wunderkind, and more.

byTablet Magazine

An Angry Smile

The debut album from Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s newly formed band is a moody, cathartic take on our modern dystopia

byDavid Meir Grossman

Three Big Questions That the American Establishment Got Wrong

Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies?

byMichael Lind

EEAAO!!!!

The best movie of the year is a spectacular, multilevel meditation on what it means to be Jewish, or any other kind of human

byLiel Leibovitz

Murder on the Beach

Paraguay’s slain criminal prosecutor Marcelo Pecci made many enemies in his lifelong effort to protect the rule of law. One of them was Hezbollah.

byEmanuele Ottolenghi

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Wingnuts vs. Factions

byMichael Lind

The Defenders of Mariupol

byVladislav Davidzon

Murder on the Beach

byEmanuele Ottolenghi

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An Angry Smile

byDavid Meir Grossman

EEAAO!!!!

byLiel Leibovitz

When Jewish Children Take to Arms

Finding Meaning in the Margins

byJonathan Silin

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The Equality of Sickness and Death

byAnne Dubitzky

Israel’s Memorial Day

byGil Troy

Israel’s Minister of the Hyphen

byMatti Friedman

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Tel Aviv on the Thames

byLeah Koenig

Red Hot Chili Peppers

byPaola Gavin

Eitan Bernath Is on Top of the ‘World’

byLeah Koenig

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Was Slavery in Egypt So Bad?

Without a Prescription

byDaniel Bergner

The Lesson I Learned in Meron

The Auto-da-fé of Mexico City

byRonnie Perelis

How British and American Elites Failed to Stop the Jewish State

byMike Watson

Theodor Herzl’s Cursed Children

Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster

byUgo Bardi

The Mask Debacle

byJacob Hale RussellandDennis Patterson

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When in Rome, Do as the Jerusalemites Do

byElhanan Miller

Baseball’s Golden Age

byTevi Troy

Ariel Helwani Won’t Back Down

byElie Bleier

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