Lin-Manuel Miranda tweets a book; answering Ben-Gurion’s question, ‘Who is a Jew?’; Jules Feiffer looks for Roy Cohn; World AIDS Day; more

Learning about Bitcoin from 19th-century thinker Georg Simmel [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Podcast]( [Np]( November 30, 2018 [Deep Thoughts, by Lin-Manuel Miranda]( [Largeimage]( Jody Rosen The composer-playwright-actor-‘Hamilton’-creator collects multitudes of his Twitter platitudes into a [checks notes] mesmerizing book! [Read This]( [donate.gif]( [Smallimage]( Culture News / Shalom Goldman [David Ben-Gurion Asks 51 Jewish Scholars: ‘Who Is a Jew?’]( On the 45th anniversary of the Israeli statesman’s death, the confounding national problem of identity [Read This]( [Smallimage]( United States / Jules Feiffer [Jules Feiffer’s American Follies]( Where’s my Roy Cohn? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Food / Elissa Goldstein [The Trouble With Latkes]( Growing up in Australia, I loved almost all traditional Ashkenazi dishes. But Hanukkah’s greasy potato pancakes have always left me cold. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Food / Dana Kessler [Savory Sufganiyot Offer a Different Taste of Hanukkah]( Forget the strawberry filling or the sugary toppings. These savory pastries are stuffed with meat, or fish, or cheese. And they make everything else taste like kids’ stuff. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Family / Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman [Gelt Complex: A Tale of Two Zaydes]( One grandfather gave lavish Hanukkah gifts, the other single dollar bills. The reasons stretch back to the Old Country. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Personal History / Matt Goodman [Testing My Faith]( I’d left Orthodoxy. But as I waited for HIV test results, I looked to God and the Talmud for comfort. [Read This]( [newsletter-the-scroll.gif] [Smallimage]( [Parsha in Progress Episode 5: Joseph and His Brothers]( Do good intentions matter? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Understanding the Ethics of Bitcoin Through the Ideas of 19th Century Thinker Georg Simmel]( Aleph-Bits is a new, semi-regular Tablet feature exploring the ethical questions of digital life. Its debut examines the human costs of the rise of cryptocurrencies. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Pati Jinich Does Shabbat]( The Mexican-Jewish chef blends her roots to make chicken soup for the soul and guacamole topped with gribenes [Read This]( [Visit Tablet]( 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](