Masha Gessen, Anti-Zionism, and ‘The New Yorker’; Nova and Psychedelics; Majdal Shams; Maui‘s Oldest Church; Elmer Berger; Brighton Beach

[View this email in your browser]( August 11, 2024 • Av 7, 5784 THE WEEKENDER # [The New Yorker’s Fact Crisis]( Is Masha Gessen’s performative anti-Zionism an exception to the magazine’s commitment to factual accuracy and independent style, or a reflection of broader decay? [BY DAVID MIKICS](#) # [The Worst Trip Ever]( Nova Festival attendees were subjected to horrific mass violence while under the influence of mind-altering substances that distorted their perceptions and delayed their responses. Here’s how the psychedelic community has coped with an unprecedented mass trauma. [BY ADRIANA KERTZER, PINCHAS ‘PINNI’ BAUMOL, HADAS ALTERMAN, AND MADISON MARGOLIN](#) [Mourning the Children Killed in Majdal Shams]( After a Hezbollah rocket murdered 12 kids on a soccer field, a Druze town in the Golan Heights comes together to grieve [BY HILLEL KUTTLER](#) [The Origins of Anti-Zionism]( American Jews, the PLO, and the CIA [BY JONATHAN MARC GRIBETZ](#) # [‘The Church Can Wait’]( Its building destroyed in the Maui wildfires one year ago, a historic Christian congregation with a complicated past puts its own future on hold while locals struggle to rebuild their communities [BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS](#) # [Brighton Beach Memoirs]( Post-Soviet Jews—all too familiar with pseudo-progressive, anti-Jewish politics—speak their minds [BY MENDEL UMINER](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Wall-to-Waller]( Two stories from producer Quinn Waller: hitting the road with an observant trucker and an inside look at NYC’s new, nontraditional Bagel Joint AUGUST 8, 2024 # # 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](