“Already, the schism between young American Jews and Israel is widening. When the Israeli media paint all campus protesters, some of whom are Jewish, as Hamas apologists, it risks making this gap insurmountable,” Ruth Margalit writes. nyer.cm/8guHFyW

More than a year after a train derailment and chemical fire in Ohio that made international news, residents contend with lingering sickness, uncertainty, and, for some, a desire to just move on. nyer.cm/4JIZCyC

From The New Yorker Humor: Can you solve the climate crisis without waking up Daddy? Also, Daddy is a metaphor for corporate influence in late-stage capitalism. nyer.cm/BfIXbok

How did a once obscure academic become the Internet’s most revered—and reviled—intellectual? nyer.cm/qFa9euY

Will Keen and Michael Stuhlbarg, the stars of the play “Patriots,” about the rise of the Russian President, studied how Putin plays table tennis and why his hand trembles. nyer.cm/a0ezinz

.Liana Finck illustrates how the playground has become the center of her life, terror, and joy. nyer.cm/sYbZvuI

The cartoon sewer-dwelling saviors of New York weren’t always going to be turtles. In The New Yorker Humor, see some of the early pitches. nyer.cm/FNzmqIO

“I think we now have a President with some of the same ideals,” a member of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said, in 2016. nyer.cm/1mR7kP3

.Emily Flake illustrates the injuries and indignities of middle age. nyer.cm/THgi8CP

The era of “prehistory” describes the period before humans recorded their existence in writing. What does this distant time reveal about our own? nyer.cm/ZrXY2vy

From Bon Appétit: In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and “Gazan style” tacos, gaining internet-wide attention. nyer.cm/oW88F7G

Oliver Sacks writes about a woman who called a violin a banjo, a glove a statue, and pliers a banana. Why was she losing her ability to recognize objects? nyer.cm/tvAoCAW

A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries—where such a conversion can be deadly. nyer.cm/z8M6gVO

“TikTok is not magic; it is not the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb controlled by one nation at the risk of another,” Kyle Chayka writes. “If we want to understand its real risks, we would do better to disentangle the motives behind the U.S. ban.” nyer.cm/n8daB3R

“Do you really want to attend this person’s birthday parties and other festive events for the duration of your lives?” In The New Yorker Humor, some questions to ask yourself before taking things to the next level. nyer.cm/WUu706Z

In 2020, Joe Biden rode a wave of anger expressed by younger constituents—he won nearly 60 per cent of the youth vote. But today’s youth have Biden, not Trump, as the focus of their demonstrations—and their message is clear, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes. nyer.cm/123F6QY

The Finnish photographer Iiu Susiraja uses her own body without straightforward interest in either masochism or self-love. nyer.cm/4TSANzB

Polyamory is seemingly everywhere these days. What are all these open couples, throuples, and polycules suddenly doing in the culture, besides one another? nyer.cm/HyZJE83

In Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary “Cherry,” Marie-Lise Chouinard, a comedian and actor based in Montreal, faces death head on, and she does so with humor. The film follows Chouinard as she navigates life with terminal cancer. Watch here: nyer.cm/xkzPGOT

“The idea that animals can be relied upon to act for their own survival and advantage does not make their behavior less challenging, graceful, or tragic. . . . We still constantly misinterpret it.” A Personal History by Anna Heyward. nyer.cm/bXSHjuH