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Last week, we brought you the heart-warming story of Yigal Guata, a Member of Knesset from the haredi Shas party who became an unlikely champion of the LGBT community in Israel after he defied the norms of his community and attended the same-sex marriage of nephew, stating that love trumped everything else.

Sometimes, when the hour is late and I’m too tired to read but too awake to sleep, and the dishes are done and the dog is walked, and the house is quiet and the downstairs is all mine, I make lists: girls I’ve kissed, cars I’ve owned, movies I’ve sneaked into. Sometimes I type them out on my computer screen, sometimes I just lie down on my sofa, dog’s head in my lap, and close my eyes and click through a slide show. They soothe me, these lists, reel back in some of the years and make me feel a little better about the ones rushing toward me. Читать дальше...

In July, Jerusalem’s district court issued one of the lengthiest verdicts in Israeli history, detailing the torture inflicted on 52 Palestinian men by the Palestinian Authority. Suspected of collaborating with Israeli authorities, the men were arrested by Mahmoud Abbas’s police. Over 1,860 pages, the verdict describes each case in graphic detail. Some had urine injected into their veins. Others had their teeth pulled out. All were beaten, starved, and humiliated, and, the court found, all were entitled to compensation for their suffering. Читать дальше...

This piece was originally published on Jewcy, Tablet’s sister site.

Here at Jewcy, we pride ourselves on our ability to name famous Jews faster than Adam Sandler. And we’re especially proud of our “Jews Who Rock” list, which was pretty exhaustive when it came out, and people still read it every day (perhaps to learn that Paula Abdul is Jewish).

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There was a particularly idiotic CNN headline from June that started floating around Twitter again recently, proclaiming “Ivanka Trump: The Most Powerful Jewish Woman in the World.” The Internet, where we all go these days to find temporary release of our constantly roiling yet impotent rage, responded with predictable ridicule, positing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Federal Reserve Head Janet Yellen, or in my case, my own damn cat—who has her own permanent chair in our house and... Читать дальше...

“If I should be someone else, who should be me?”  —Yiddish saying

The 500-mile distance across multiple systems of public and private infrastructure that separates me from Frederick Wiseman seemed particularly resonant and daunting this August, when I made arrangements to see the 87-year-old director on the occasion of his 41st documentary film, Ex Libris, an examination of the New York Public Library, which recently debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival and opens tonight at New York’s Film Forum. Читать дальше...

This is what the sailor Igumenko had to do—march around his little horse a few times, like a Jew circling the synagogue on Simchas Torah, until he finally threw himself on top of it. The horse was somewhat addled.

The Europe that conquered much of the world from the 15th century onward was empowered by its violent disunity. Its quarreling states large and small were sharpened in war and diplomacy by fighting one another at frequent intervals. Each war brought its share of death and destruction, but each was followed by vigorous procreation and reconstruction, so that Europe kept growing from war to war, in population and in wealth, while advancing in the arts, the sciences, and in technology. That Europe was still Christian except for its Jews... Читать дальше...

In 2004, Giora Chamizer was an Israeli TV writer living in New York and doing not much at all. He’d lounge on the couch, he recalled in an interview last year, channel surf, catch three or four movies a week, and wait for inspiration to strike. It did, as it so rarely does these days, in an article in The New Yorker.