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Going to Goa, considering kiruv, and more

by
Marc Tracy
April 27, 2010

Today in Tablet Magazine, Matthew Schwarzfeld files his first of three dispatches from Goa, on the southwest Indian coast, where the more hippie graduates of the Israeli military like to go and chill out. Books critic Adam Kirsch take the measure of Chief British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s new manifesto for a more modern, engaged Judaism. Samantha M. Shapiro interviews Miriam Lowenbraun, a prominent figure in the Orthodox kiruv movement, which seeks to persuade Jews to be more observant. And The Scroll could use some time on the Goan beach right about now.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.