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Mark knew. Yuval didn’t, then he did.

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Editor’s Note: On Fridays we publish a selection of letters our readers have sent in regarding articles and podcasts published the week prior on Tablet. This week, because of the holidays, we are also publishing letters from prior weeks. 

Dolce & Gabbana has become the latest fashion label to enter the brave new world of “hijab chic.” This week, the high-end designer released photos of a drop-dead gorgeous—and presumably drop-dead expensive—collection of hijabs, abayas, and other pieces of traditional Muslim garb, intended to adorn the kind of woman who doesn’t want to let a mandate of enforced modesty get in the way of wearing an outfit that runs into the five figures.

Here are five Yiddish tongue twisters, glued together by some English. Like most fun, they generally don’t make much sense, but neither does Donald Trump. So try them out with your loved ones, your colleagues, and your pets, or chant them aloud to yourself.

On Wednesday night, Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio held a campaign event in Dallas, Texas. The Florida senator was rattling off his usual stump speech when something happened that was definitely not in the script.

Key activists in two of Israel’s best-known left wing NGOs were caught on camera admitting that they entrapped Palestinians interested in selling land to Israelis and then reported them to the Palestinian Authority, despite knowing that these Palestinians faced near-certain torture or murder at the hands of the PA’s secret police.

When I began work on a book about my mother and her friends I had only a vague notion of what I wished to do, much less how to go about doing it. My only thought was to resurrect the sounds of words, spoken and unspoken, that had served as the context for our lives and others around us.

Sunk in my bath, much depressed under the water, I was thinking, as always, of the great masters. As an artist of very small caliber I was constantly obsessing on the world famous contemporary Israeli novelists. I was envious as hell. Suddenly, in my stupid wrath it dawned on me: “If these guys are so internationally acclaimed, and have already tired of the Hebrew rabble, and write about the Hebrew scene purely for export, no longer for local consumption—only faking locality to seem authentic—why not admit the pretense? Читать дальше...