Urban America’s Grim Prospects

Free love in the tenements; Dabru Emet at 20; Coronaspection [View this email in your browser]( July 6 2020 • Tamuz 14, 5780 # # Blues]( The fashionable radicalism now popular in progressive cities will ultimately fail and, in the process, hurt working people and minorities the most [BY](#)JOEL KOTKIN # [(Not Much) Sex in the City]( Virginity and free love in the immigrant world of tenements, in Miriam Karpilove’s newly translated, unselfconsciously Jewish, and hugely popular Yiddish novel ‘Diary of a Lonely Girl’ [BY](#)DARA HORN # [What Can Jews Learn From Christian Missionaries?]( Twenty years after a major statement by Jews reaching out to Christians, it’s time to ask again what we have to teach each other [BY](#)SHAUL MAGID [Coronaspection: Introspection XIII]( Cardinal Cristoph Schonborn, Elder Jeffrey Holland, Rabbi Dov Singer [BY ALON GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # TAKE ONE [Shabbat 121 & 122]( Today’s Daf Yomi pages give us a clash for the ages: The sage, who urge us to go ahead and kill creatures that may threaten our lives, and the pious, who argue that taking a life, under any circumstance, should be avoided. JULY 6, 2020 # # 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](