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Admit it: You need another great Israeli TV show in your life. Well, you’re in luck. Tonight, the JCC in Manhattan will premiere the pilot episode of When Heroes Fly, followed by a conversation with its star, the stellar Ninet Tayeb.

Admit it: You need another great Israeli TV show in your life. Well, you’re in luck: Tonight, the JCC in Manhattan will premiere the pilot episode of When Heroes Fly, followed by a conversation with its star, the stellar Ninet Tayeb. The event is sold out, but the pilot is available, with English subtitles, here.

Amid high security, thousands of human rights defenders and politicians gathered last month in Paris, in a massive expression of support that urges the international community to take a firm stance against the ruthless Iranian regime. This is reportedly the world’s largest gathering of people outside of Iran who call for freedom and democracy in Iran.

To read our full coverage of the World Lacrosse Championship, and to win Tablet Lacrosse-themed swag, click here. 

Somewhere in the first hours of Shoah, a former SS officer in Auschwitz describes the earth trembling like a wave under the pressure of the mass graves. This is midsummer, during the first period of the extermination, and the ovens have not been built yet. As the number of bodies pile up, and as detainees are being forced to bury them, the mass graves, not deep enough, are soon full and the layer of clay and dust that covers them turns out to be too thin. Under the summer heat, the mass of decomposing... Читать дальше...

Whether the president, by demeaning allies, calling NATO a foe and getting even chummier with his Russian counterpart is 1) brilliantly opening a new era in geopolitics, 2) oblivious to what NATO and Russia, respectively, are, or 3) a contemporary Manchurian candidate who actually got elected, a Yiddish-speaking observer would be forgiven for at least noting that epes schmeckt.

It has been nearly a year since the closure of the Jerusalem Pool. The lot that housed the Olympic-size pool is now a giant hole in the ground, and an upscale supermarket is expanding into the area that once housed the complex’s one-room gym. Instead of the hundreds of children who used to splash in the kiddie pool each summer, now there are just a few manned tractors clearing away the rubble behind a billboard advertising the luxury condominium that will be built on the site. A few weeks ago... Читать дальше...

Locomotive is a gorgeous children’s book, with mod illustrations and luscious color. An 80-year-old Polish children’s classic, it was reissued by the indie British publisher Thames & Hudson a few months ago. Rendered in rollicking yet sophisticated rhyme—Here is the engine, black, stupendous,/Dripping with oil, its heat tremendous./Eager it waits; and its body glows,/While the bursts of steam that it pants and blows,/Seem proud, impatient.—it is a delight.