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Ilit Azoulay, ‘Vitrine No. 20: All sorts of sights went wrong like a great catastrophe in a glass storage,’ from ‘No Thing Dies, 2017,’ inkjet print, gold leaves, 104x65 cm
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Experience

Experience is the half-life of Glory
I said when you opened
the door whose sign read
No Solicitations.

I think you have the wrong address
you said. In this house we believe
philosophy is cope for the over
production of elites.

But I said, He who alters his position
alters his luck. Sell your possessions, subscribe to my Substack, and work on yourself simultaneously.

I said watch me. Now you can’t stop staring.

—Zohar Atkins

The Dreaming Kind

The new album from The Orchids is a return to romantic, indie-rock warmth

byDavid Meir Grossman

The sound associated with Sarah Records has always been “indie rock.” When the label first started in 1987, this had a very specific meaning: a dreamy, jangley warmth and repetition that was first articulated in NME’s cassette compilation “C86,” released a year prior. While British youth music from a decade earlier was riotous and snotty punk rock, this music had a deep earnest feeling attached to every lyric, every riff.

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The Tab, Issue 34

The Tab is a curated weekly printable digest that collects recently published articles, newly relevant archival hits, recipes, an insert from our afternoon newsletter The Scroll, and more.

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Issue 34: Howard Jacobson remembers The Queen; censorship and big tech; Unitarian Universalist sex education; Rosh Hashanah essays; and more. Plus a holiday brisket recipe.

Issue 33: Talking with non-Jewish spouses, white-boy rap, poetry in the orange groves, an Italian plum tart recipe, and more.

Issue 32: The Iran deal’s regional realignments, psychiatry and ‘insight,’ mental health on campus, Rwandan kibbutzim, and more.

Issue 31: Hate crimes in NYC, the exhausting battles of Diego Schwartzman, Baha’i teenagers, pushcarts, and more

Beach Reads 2022: An amazing, 113-page, free anthology of some of our best writing, for you and your hammock.

Issue 29: Orthodox women talk American Jewry, George Soros ‘the Jew,’ painter Shirley Jaffe, collard greens, and more.

Issue 28: Tisha B’Av: The end of the living memory of the Holocaust, the ‘network state,’ the new Jewish awakening, a cold cherry soup for summer, and more.

Issue 27: Redefining the kibbutz, performative politics, American literature as 21st-century refuge, a belated Kaddish, and more.

Issue 26: In full, Armin Rosen’s in-depth report on the background of the uniquely American life of Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Also: surveillance, Judaism in translation, chocolate, and more.

Get Issue 25: The left’s First Amendment, tech-bro Miami, the Catholic Land Movement revival, a chocolate sponge cake recipe, and more.

Get Issue 24: Early American Zionism, post-Cold-War Germany, the #MeToo Rabbi, David Milch, Jacob Taubes, and more.

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The Kveen
An English Jew pays his respects
byHoward Jacobson
The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

Censorship of wrongthink by Big Tech at the behest of the government is government censorship, which violates the First Amendment

byJenin Younes
From ‘Deux Ans’
From ‘Deux Ans’
The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

Censorship of wrongthink by Big Tech at the behest of the government is government censorship, which violates the First Amendment

byJenin Younes
From ‘Deux Ans’
From ‘Deux Ans’

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Introducing Gatecrashers

A podcast about the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League, from Unorthodox co-host Mark Oppenheimer

September 6, 2022

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'Who is Ron Biton? Everyman. His name is the Israeli version of “John Smith.”'
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My Favorite Anti-Semite

More from our occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

The director’s films tackled the grandest questions in German culture and politics, before he turned his critical eye to the Jews

BY MARDEAN ISAAC

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Edith Wharton

There’s a barbarian at every gate

BY ANNE ROIPHE

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Ty Cobb

He was the greatest and strangest of all ball players, a fierce competitor, and a hateful person

BY ARI HOFFMAN

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Gregor von Rezzori

Why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew

BY WESLEY YANG

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Amiri Baraka

Kaddish for the late poet with a history of bigotry, from a poet with a feeling for jazz

BY JAKE MARMER

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Frank Norris

The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem

BY ELISA NEW

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H.P. Lovecraft

The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature

BY HUNTER C. EDEN

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Rupert Brooke

Regardless of whether or not we should forgive our favorite artists for these sorts of opinions, one thing is clear: We definitely want to.

BY ALEXANDER ACIMAN

The Professor of Apocalypse

Jacob Taubes’ deeply penetrating and profoundly mischievous thoughts on the evasions of liberalism and the irreconcilable nature of Messianic expectation strike a chord in the present moment

byBlake Smith
The Genius of Destruction

Jacob Taubes and the long march through the institutions

byJerry Muller
Why Read Taubes?

The controversial Jewish thinker leads us to see ourselves as we are

byBlake Smith

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Shalom Goldman

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Read more by the professor of Religion at Middlebury College. His most recent book is Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions about Israel.

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The Dharma of David Ben-Gurion

Two European Jewish refugees helped remake the landscape of the possible through their friendship: One was the first prime minister of Israel, and the other was a Buddhist monk

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Denise Levertov’s Poetic Gifts and Her Hidden Inheritance from Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi

How the influential Jewish apostate to Christianity and self-described ‘Hebrew-Christian’ Paul Philip Levertoff influenced the art and activism of his daughter

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Raymond Carver, Israeli Writer

Though the great American storyteller never felt at home during his months in Tel Aviv, Israelis saw themselves in his direct sensibility

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A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel

A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?

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The Jewish Auden

The poet’s philo-Semitism and visit to Jerusalem had a profound influence on him, and on Yehuda Amichai

Philip K. Dick’s Last Great Obsession

The Dead Sea Scrolls blew the sci-fi writer’s mind

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Johnny Cash in the Holy Land

The country singer—and a founding father of American Christian Zionism—bound for the Promised Land

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Ep. 3: Dartmouth and the Jews Who Loved It

How a laid-back college in the mountains became an unlikely oasis for midcentury Jews

September 20, 2022

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