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Article 19
http://tabletmag.com/audio/podcast_feature795.mp3 Despite her tragic circumstances, Dahlia Finger, the antiheroine of Elisa Albert’s first novel, makes sympathy a tough sell. Diagnosed with a brain...
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Article 18
• The especially fearful and vigorous opponents of Park51 are actually playing into terrorists’ hands, argues one terrorism expert. [Laura Rozen] • Guess which country has legalized medicinal...
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Today in Tablet Magazine, Mideast columnist Lee Smith argues that a newly Republican House of Representatives could give President Obama political cover to continue his Mideast policy, emphasizing...
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Article 16
Today, Tablet Magazine published Rebecca Spence’s dispatch from Berkeley, California, where a group of Orthodox Jews are inspired by their religion and spirituality to sell medicinal marijuana. And...
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Article 15
Few other countries are watching today’s midterm elections more closely than Israel, which anticipates that Republican gains in the House and Senate will hem the Obama administration in somewhat when...
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Article 14
Things went pretty much as expected: Sweeping Republican gains at the national and state levels—enough to win the House of Representatives (60-plus seats!), but not the Senate; enough to win the...
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A Jew, a WASP, and a Catholic Made the Velvet Underground a Balanced Rock...
Three things happened in the fall of 1990 that changed my life forever. The first—and by far the least significant—was the first Gulf War, which inspired Saddam Hussein to hurl his missiles at Israel....
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It's Easy to Get Marijuana If You Live in a West Bank Israeli Settlement
Dude! I, like, totally blew it. Back when I lived in Israel, all my bros were totally into weed and stuff, and we were always mad scared of the police busting us. There’s an easy solution! All you have...
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• The Adelsons have given $20 million to Gingrich’s Super PAC, for a return-on-investment of … hold on, let me calculate this … $0. [Politico] • Appearing at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with...
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Reform Rabbi: One of Washington’s First Marijuana Dispensaries Will Be Run By...
Jeffrey Kahn, a Reform rabbi living in Washington, D.C., remembers several congregants who approached him over the years with the same dilemma: They’d heard that marijuana could relieve their nausea...
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Action Bronson, Genius Jewish Rapper From Queens, Deserves a Grammy
Action Bronson is a 29-year-old chef-turned-rapper of Albanian and Jewish extraction from Queens, who is internationally known for his love of THC, epicurean feasts, and whip gymnastics. He reminds me...
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Medical Marijuana Soothes the Pain of Israeli Cancer Patients and Holocaust...
On a recent afternoon in Kibbutz Naan, near the city of Rehovot, Israel, Moshe Rute took a hefty puff from his pot pipe, with the blessing of the government. His hands stopped convulsing, and he...
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The New Face of Marijuana Legalization Movement Is In Colorado
To find perhaps the most influential marijuana activist in the country, you have to go to Denver. Your journey starts near the Colorado statehouse, which in May passed legislation establishing a...
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Thanks in Part to Jewish Activists, Colorado Will Ring in the New Year With...
While many of us will likely be sleeping in tomorrow, cannabis advocates will be up early (contrary to stereotype) to help inaugurate the newly legal marijuana market in Colorado. The first customer...
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With Egypt’s Border Closed, Israelis Are Farming Their Own Weed
For some Israelis, the government’s newly completed, $400 million border fence with Egypt looks like a way to stop terrorism. For others, it represents a visible effort to halt illegal immigration from...
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Is Your Kosher Marijuana Ethically Grown?
At 12:01 a.m. today, marijuana became legal (well, kinda-sorta) in Washington, D.C. It’s been decriminalized in Colorado, Washington state and Alaska; Oregon passed an initiative that takes effect in...
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Reads on Weed: Celebrate 4/20 With Tablet's Marijuana Coverage
Today is April 20, a day during which we celebrate pot—its culture; its industry; its fast-growing legal acceptance; its ability to make environments feel lighter and more like a video game; its...
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Israeli Scientists Believe a Chemical Compound Found in Marijuana Can Help...
A group of Israeli scientists have reason to believe that a chemical compound found in marijuana has the power to expedite the healing of broken bones. According to their study cannabinoid cannabidiol...
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Q&A: A.J. Weberman on Dylan, Lennon, Garbage, New York, and the JDL
Alan Weberman is a stone cold meshugganeh. He is by no means a reliable news source. Yet, by the same token, the legalese that these days must precede any printed record of the former Yippie, drug...
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This Week on Unorthodox, Author Eric Weiner and Oxford English Dictionary...
This week on Unorthodox: Israeli settlers and Palestinians work together … to grow marijuana. Our Jewish guest is Eric Weiner, former NPR Jerusalem bureau chief and author of the new book The Geography...
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