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I’ve been a writer and producer of television and movies working in Hollywood for over 30 years. One of my recent jobs was on the TV series Homeland, where I was involved in creating the season just concluded. The season was about information warfare. It’s a little-discussed subject, and it took a lot of research to find out exactly what this protean form of conflict is all about. The past season of Homeland offers a pretty good primer in some of the basic techniques and counter techniques.

Five years ago, a young Israeli woman identified in court documents only as G, decided to end her marriage. It was, the documents show, an abusive relationship, with G moving out of her home and into a shelter for battered women. But when she asked her husband for a get, the Jewish divorce document, he refused, turning G into an agunah, a halachic term for a woman who is chained to her marriage, a predicament that currently plagues hundreds of Jewish women around the world. Yesterday, in a rare move... Читать дальше...

Five years ago, a young Israeli woman identified in court documents only as G, decided to end her marriage. It was, the documents show, an abusive relationship, with G moving out of her home and into a shelter for battered women. But when she asked her husband for a get, the Jewish divorce document, he refused, turning G into an Agunah, a halachic term for a woman who is chained to her marriage, a predicament that currently plagues hundreds of Jewish women around the world. Yesterday, in a rare move... Читать дальше...

Reconstructionist Rabbi Michael Pollack’s kippah is purple—bipartisan by design—mixing red and blue because when it comes to political bribery in Pennsylvania, a state that ranks in the Center for Public Integrity’s top 10 corrupt states, Republicans and Democrats are equally culpable.

I first came across Imposters, the Bravo series that’s playing five nights out of seven on Israeli television, scrolling through Netflix this past March. The picture showed a woman on a bed, the label said dark comedy, the slug described a con artist marrying men and stealing their money. Sex, cruelty, the suggestion of the absurd: It looked designed—overdesigned—to allure. But after a minute I thought, “Why Not?” and tried the first episode.

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

Everyone knows. Thus starts the anonymous letter received by Coleman Silk, a Jewish classics professor and dean at Athena College, in Massachusetts. Silk has just resigned as dean of the college, after uttering a racial slur, and now stands accused of preying sexually on a vulnerable young woman. “Everyone knows”: Years before the advent of social media’s public shaming, and the prevalence of #MeToo, identity politics, and political correctness in our fast-moving public discourse, the words provoke the fall of Silk... Читать дальше...