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One of the most nuanced conversations about postwar American anti-Semitism came in the form of a film. In 1947 Elia Kazan released Gentleman’s Agreement, starring Gregory Peck as a gentile journalist who is assigned to write an article on anti-semitism. After realizing that he will never fully understand this prejudice without experiencing it, Peck adopts the name Greenberg and goes undercover as a Jew in New England’s high society in order to expose the truth of anti-Jewish sentiment lurking not-so-far beneath the surface. Читать дальше...

One of the most nuanced conversations about post-war American anti-Semitism came in the form of a film. In 1947 Elia Kazan released Gentleman’s Agreement, starring Gregory Peck as a gentile journalist who is assigned to write an article on anti-semitism. After realizing that he will never fully understand this prejudice without experiencing it, Peck adopts the name Greenberg and goes undercover as a Jew in New England’s high society in order to expose the truth of anti-Jewish sentiment lurking not-so-far beneath the surface. Читать дальше...

Unorthodox, the world’s leading Jewish podcast, takes questions from its listeners about all aspects of Jewish life, from the religiously profound to the utterly inconsequential. Every week, we discuss one of these questions in “Ask Unorthodox.” If you have a question, please send it to unorthodox@tabletmag.com.

On the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghettos of the region of southern German-occupied Poland known as Zaglembie, the Zaglembie World Organization and the World Jewish Congress organized a week-long pilgrimage – from July 27 to August 3, 2018 – of survivors and descendants of survivors from the area to Krakow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Będzin, Sosnowiec, Zawiercie, and other once heavily Jewish towns. This article is adapted from a lecture delivered by Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress... Читать дальше...

Many have already made up their minds about the new Netflix series Insatiable ahead of the show’s premiere today. Twitter mobs accused the show of fat-shaming based on its provocative trailer, and a Change.org petition to cancel the 12 episodes has garnered nearly 250,000 signatures. Now that the season is officially available to binge watch, you can confirm your worst suspicions: Insatiable is even more offensive than anyone imagined.

The main plotline of an overweight high school girl... Читать дальше...

Many have already made up their minds about the new Netflix series Insatiable ahead of the show’s premiere today. Twitter mobs accused the show of fat shaming based on its provocative trailer, and a Change.org petition to cancel the 12 episodes has garnered nearly 250,000 signatures. Now that the season is officially available to binge watch, you can confirm your worst suspicions: Insatiable is even more offensive than anyone imagined.

The main plotline of an overweight high school girl... Читать дальше...

The other day, we ran out of dog food. Not long ago, picking up the five-pound bag of kibble and finding it empty meant a short walk to the neighborhood pet store, where the same man flashed the same smile before shuffling off to the back room and returning with the same package, a weekly ritual that helped us make sense of both time and space. Then, the large chain store set up shop, and the local guys folded and disappeared. We still shopped for dog food once a week, but there was nothing intimate... Читать дальше...

My Favorite Anti-Semite: an occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work.

When did I first meet Gloria Steinem? That’s lost in the mists of time. I was impressed by her 1964 exposé in Show magazine of a bunny’s life at the Playboy Club. However, that excellent piece sparked no movement, nor did it free Gloria from what I perceived as the tyranny of having to maintain a perfected female appearance.