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A new read on Jewish life

29 June 2022

30 Sivan 5782

Rokhl’s Golden City: The story of German sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld, an early activist for gay rights and founder of a clinic performing gender-affirming surgeries a full century ago, before the Nazis targeted him and his work

byRokhl Kafrissen

Expect the Title IX Inquisition

The Biden administration’s new rules for adjudicating campus sexual misconduct allegations favor an ‘inquisitorial’ approach over procedural fairness

byKC Johnson

This Land Was Made for You and MENA

The U.S. Census may add a ‘Middle Eastern and North African’ pan-Semitic racial category. What could possibly go wrong?

byMichael Lind

Expect the Title IX Inquisition

The Biden administration’s new rules for adjudicating campus sexual misconduct allegations favor an ‘inquisitorial’ approach over procedural fairness

byKC Johnson

This Land Was Made for You and MENA

The U.S. Census may add a ‘Middle Eastern and North African’ pan-Semitic racial category. What could possibly go wrong?

byMichael Lind

My Choice

Why one ultra-Orthodox woman chose to have an abortion—and how she felt about her decision

bySara Shamansky

Roe and the Fable of Progressive Neoliberalism

The coming Supreme Court decision will extend the culture wars long enough to keep real economic reforms off the table forever

byB. Duncan Moench

Both Sides Now

As the abortion debate heats up, Christian groups in New York—on both sides—stake out positions beyond angry rhetoric and stereotypes

byMaggie Phillips

China’s Killer Doctors

How the PRC’s lucrative transplant industry kills donors by removing their organs

byJacob LaveeandMatthew P. Robertson

Alain Delon and Juliet Perto in 'Mr. Klein' (1975)

A Legend of Innocence

French Jews find themselves in a delicate position as once-settled debates about the country’s wartime past flare up again

byDaniel Solomon

The Dough That Binds Us

Carrying on my grandmother’s baking traditions has connected me to my family—and to Judaism

byMicah Siva

A Legend of Innocence

French Jews find themselves in a delicate position as once-settled debates about the country’s wartime past flare up again

byDaniel Solomon

The Dough That Binds Us

Carrying on my grandmother’s baking traditions has connected me to my family—and to Judaism

byMicah Siva

The Minyan: LGBTQ Jews

In a roundtable discussion about the state of the American Jewish community, talking about progress, the barriers that remain, and the problem with ‘inclusion’

byAbigail Pogrebin

Stop Being Surprised by Germany

Blinded by their own Cold War propaganda, Americans can’t see Berlin’s Ukraine policy for what it is

byJeremy Stern

Hollywood’s Echoes of Odessa

The poet Boris Dralyuk reflects on the slowly disappearing Soviet Jewish community in Los Angeles

byJake Marmer

306

The route number on which Monsey’s Viznitz Cemetery is located in New York. (It is also the numerological value of Meron, the pilgrimage site where the second-century sage Shimon bar Yochai is buried.)

Hollywood’s Echoes of Odessa

The poet Boris Dralyuk reflects on the slowly disappearing Soviet Jewish community in Los Angeles

byJake Marmer

306

Pink Dolphins and Electronica

The new album from jazz-electronic duo Anteloper is a challenge for the sonic imagination

byDavid Meir Grossman

Tablet Magazine’s Printable Weekly Digest

A selection of our best articles from this week for printer-friendly, distraction-free reading. Issue 22: LGBTQ Jews, the ‘pro-Jewish’ left, lost Aleppo, the chair dance’s ubiquity, and more.

byTablet Magazine

The New ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Star on His Jewish Asian Identity

Zachary Noah Piser’s childhood rabbi flew in for his Broadway debut

byTablet Podcasts

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