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Weekend Edition

08 September 2024

5 Elul 5784

There has been a stealth revolution in American voting laws and practices since 2016. Is mistrust being built into our system?

byArmin Rosen

When Your Therapist Hates Israel

Differing opinions about Oct. 7, Gaza, and antisemitism are straining relationships between clinicians and their clients

byJay Deitcher

The Crisis of Performative Kitsch

Olivier Roy’s new book on culture and identity politics is intuitive, brilliant, and probably wrong

byMarc Weitzmann

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When Your Therapist Hates Israel

Differing opinions about Oct. 7, Gaza, and antisemitism are straining relationships between clinicians and their clients

byJay Deitcher

The Crisis of Performative Kitsch

Olivier Roy’s new book on culture and identity politics is intuitive, brilliant, and probably wrong

byMarc Weitzmann

‘Bring Them Home’ Is Bringing Us to the Brink

Empty slogans and misbegotten promises are designed to cause civil war. Don’t let them.

byLiel Leibovitz

Our Hersh

My own son shares a name with the American hostage killed by Hamas this week—a named steeped in meaning and Jewish history

byJamie Betesh Carter

Bracing Themselves to Go Back to School

After enduring a year of protests, encampments, and turmoil, college students return to campus uncertain what the year to come will hold

byThe Editors

Bill Gaines transformed 'MAD' from a comic into a magazine so it couldn’t be censored. He went on to publish 'MAD' for over 40 years.

The MAD Files

byDavid Mikics

Forced to decide whether to make their way through the world either laughing or crying, Jewish creative outsiders, just like we gays, chose to laugh with intelligent irony. As the late great Joan Rivers, an OG of Jewish campiness, once said, ‘Nothing is funny unless everything is funny.’

—Simon Doonan

I Was Raped Because I Am Jewish

byKatie Simon

—Simon Doonan

I Was Raped Because I Am Jewish

byKatie Simon

Dive in to a fascinating historical account of how money and its lack affected the victims of the Lodz Ghetto in Poland.

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