'He arrived late in the day, after office hours. When he had the time, he stayed for a meal. That second-best doctor put away gefilte fish, latkes, chicken—my mother and grandmother served him as if he was our guest at a Seder.' Max Apple in Tablet Magazine: tinyurl.com/y38dty5k

The Second-best Photographer: A family portrait becomes an act of betrayal

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Magnificently spooky! This week I take a look at a few of the many incarnations of the most extra Yiddish ghost: The Dybbuk.

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'Listening to איתמר בן גביר is good practice for American Jews in dealing with a type of Israeli leader they are only going to see more of in coming years—namely, ones who don’t care about their opinions very much.'
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Writing for Tablet Magazine, Straus Center Visiting Professor Liel Leibovitz reviews Ruth Wisse's new translation of Chaim Grade's My Quarrel with Hersch Rasseyner.
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The Many Faces of the Dybbuk: Multiple versions of the spooky story—the good, the bad, and the drek.

An American Werewolf in Lublin’s latest:

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#America is back. How did #Biden find the Rooseveltian accents to lead the free world in supporting a martyred but soon-to-be triumphant #Ukraine ? It's 'the Biden miracle.' My new article on the Tablet Magazine home page. bit.ly/3Dh3QyJ

The Biden Miracle: On the global stage, he may just rise from the rank of a ‘caretaker’ president to one of the greats, from Bernard-Henri Lévy.

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Small Wonder: The tiny olive has been beloved for thousands of years—with good reason, writes Paola Gavin.

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The Mysterious Bruriah Episode: An excerpt from the work of Eitam Henkin, a brilliant doctoral student who was murdered by terrorists in front of his four young children.
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Tablet interview. My long look into the latest and scariest expression of the discontent lurking underneath Israeli and Jewish life tabletmag.com/sections/israe…

The Rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir: The Kahanist who embodies the fears and drives roiling beneath the shiny surface of the Start-up Nation is now only an election away from real political power. Will it change him, asks Armin Rosen.

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Sometimes you do an interview and it surprises you and it feels so emotional and important that it makes you feel all of the pressure in the world to get the story right. That's today's episode of The Franchise. I hope you'll listen wherever you podcast: tabletmag.com/podcasts/the-f…

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🗓️ 'Why Ukraine', documentary by French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, will be screened on October 27, 6PM, in presence of the filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy

📍 United Nations, New York

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A New Life for an Old Tradition: Wimpels have been used as ritual objects by German-speaking Jews for centuries, but these days in the U.S., the Torah binders have become part of new traditions in a wide variety of Jewish communities, from Paula Jacobs.
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Officials demonized unvaccinated people, promised us the shots would prevent transmission, and worked with tech companies to suppress dissent. Now it’s clear that much of the information they censored was true all along. My latest for Tablet Magazine
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The Try Out: A Jewish kid battles a bloody nose and nipple chafe to make the basketball team.
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