A Look Inside the Cult That Helped Shape U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell

Understanding Maimonides • [View this email in your browser]( March 26, 2024 • Adar II 16, 5784 TABLET IN ISRAEL Purim, and even Shushan Purim, may have been over, but the revelry in the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market continued late into the night. Amid the music and dancing, the deliberations of the U.N. Security Council could feel, both literally and figuratively, like they were a world away. For regular updates from Tablet’s audience team, visit our [Instagram page](. # [Fifteen Minutes of Flame]( Aaron Bushnell’s agony didn’t start with Israel’s war in Gaza. It began with an abusive cult that traumatized its children, and saw the destruction of Israel as a gateway to heaven. [BY DAVID JAGER](#) [Advertisement](#) # [One Maimonides or Two?]( Isadore Twersky vs. Leo Strauss, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Moshe Halbertal, and the faculty of Harvard University [BY WARREN ZEV HARVEY](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # TAKE ONE [Bava Metzia 27]( Today’s Talmud page offers a lesson in deductive reasoning that would make Sherlock Holmes proud MARCH 26, 2024 IN THE SCROLL On Monday morning, the United States refused to exercise its veto to prevent the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, leading to a “lasting sustainable ceasefire,” and the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas. In time-honored Obama-Biden tradition, various administration mouthpieces immediately ran to the press to explain that the U.S. abstention meant, well, precisely nothing. [READ]( ABOUT IT]( # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](