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On Tuesday night, at La Fenice theater in Venice, Italy, the world’s first ghetto was remembered 500 years after a 1516 decree from the Venetian Senate confined the city’s 700 Jews to a small gated island on the periphery of the lagoon. The event, said historian Simon Schama during his keynote speech, was a time to reflect on the ghetto’s dual role in both ostracizing and uniting Jews. “Our commemoration should be weighing in the balance of rejoicing and mourning,” he said. “History is not always... Читать дальше...

On March 21, 2012, Isaac Kopfler boarded a flight from Zurich, Switzerland, to São Paulo, Brazil, where he calls home. Kopfler had ordered kosher meals—which, for the official record, are typically warmer and more delicious (read: saltier) that the regularly-served meals—for the 14-hour flight ahead. But Lufthansa didn’t have ’em. On Monday—that is, over four years later—Kopfler was awarded $1,400 in damages by a Brazilian court, reported JTA, who unearthed this gem.

Back need to come the days, as it plays out in Don Delillo’s “Pafko at the Wall,” when 14-year-old boys feel the game of baseball with such fervor that they skip school and head to the Polo Grounds, where they sneak into the ballgame by hopping ticket booths so that, eventually, they can witness the Shot Heard ‘Round the World. From Delillo:

Most likely, Meir Ettinger will not get to attend his firstborn’s bris.

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Election season means lots of talk about what direction the country is heading in and about the character of those who aspire to lead it. Personal insults are flying—losers, liars, possessors of weak moral fiber. Underneath the rhetoric and mud-slinging lie deeply held beliefs about the connection between ethics, free will, and the autonomy of the self.

In Girls & Sex, Peggy Orenstein deploys statistics the way a ninja uses throwing stars: They’re precisely aimed, aware of your weak spots, and surgically targeted to cause pain.

Welcome back to #TrumpWatch, where Tablet presents the daily low-lights of Donald Trump’s attempt to use the dark forces of bigotry to become President of the United States. Today we’d like to direct your attention to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial, which calls for readers to abstain from voting for Donald Trump, a “temperamentally impulsive…reality TV Wonderland.”

Thin Mints, typically the most popular Girl Scout cookies, are now certified kosher pareve by the Orthodox Union. You know, so you can enjoy them right after your gefilte fish and chicken soup with matzoh balls. This, from the Little Brownie Bakers website, which is one of two licensed baking companies that produces Girl Scout cookies (ABC Bakers’ Thin Mints are labeled U-D):