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The Anti-Defamation League’s opposition to Cordoba House, the Islamic center planned for two blocks away from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, has become news itself. J.J. Goldberg provides a nice round-up of infuriated center-left voices (though he omits contributing editor Jeff Goldberg’s and TNR’s Jonathan Chait’s).
Meanwhile, contributing editor Seth Lipsky’s New York Sun editorializes in ...

Today in Tablet Magazine, Mideast columnist Lee Smith gets specific on the question of what Israel’s preconditions for peace are. Contributing editor Seth Lipsky, one-time editor of the Forward, has an imaginary conversation with that paper’s founder, Abraham Cahan, on the occasion of his 150th birthday. The Scroll has imaginary conversations with itself every day.

Today in Tablet Magazine, Beirut-based Hanin Ghaddar struggles with her Lebanese grandmother, whom she loves, but who herself loves Hezbollah and is, er, less bullish on Israelis and Jews. Columnist Seth Lipsky takes a break from the Jew beat to profile Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States—and a former Wall Street Journal business ...

It’s not exactly a story filled with Jewish particularity, normally the stuff of this column, but the fellow I find myself thinking of this week is Raymond Joseph. He has been in the news because he is Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, and it was Joseph who went on the air to defend his ...

• Special Envoy George Mitchell is in Paris, requesting French and European Union support for the new U.S. effort to bring the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. He is in Brussels tomorrow. [JPost]
• Manny Pacquaio, generally agreed to be the world’s best boxer, did not want to fight his fellow welterweight Yuri ...

Today in Tablet Magazine, columnist Seth Lipsky takes stock of Ariel Sharon’s career four years after the then-prime minister lapsed into his current coma.
One feature, no doubt, was that Sharon was an includer, a welcoming figure. This didn’t comport easily with his image through much of his career as a hawk. But one could see ...

In the funniest scene from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything Is Illuminated, several Ukrainians attempt to understand what exactly is wrong with an American Jew named Jonathan Safran Foer who refuses to eat any meat. Almost a decade later, Foer has finally explained himself, in Eating Animals (Little, Brown, November), a nonfiction cri de coeur ...

Today in Tablet Magazine, Allison Hoffman reports on 85-year-old Jack Lunzer’s efforts to sell his extensive collection of Judaica, including a flawless copy of the first-ever printed Talmud, to the Library of Congress. The weekly Vox Tablet podcast features Israeli-born world-music musician and educator Oran Etkin. Columnist Seth Lipsky considers Norman Podhoretz’s new Why Are ...

In Tablet Magazine today, Elissa Strauss celebrates the rich Yiddish lexicon for describing female genitalia. We present part 3 of Douglas Century’s epic report on the current state of Israeli organized crime (part 1; part 2). Apropos Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s attempts to argue that the Palestinian Grand Mufti’s alliance with Hitler during World ...

On Tablet Magazine today, Wayne Hoffman points out that Men of Israel, the first gay pornographic film to feature an all-Israeli cast, is also the first gay porn with openly Jewish men. Allison Hoffman braves the rain to chronicle a group of European rabbis and imams as it receives a private tour of Ellis Island. ...