The Day School Crisis; Twitter and Human Sacrifice; Stanley Fish and Free Speech; Amy Winehouse; Mississippi in Yiddish; Lapsed Mormons; Janna Gur

A sacred space to commemorate miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths [View this email in your browser]( July 26, 2020 • Av 5, 5780 # THE WEEKENDER # [COVID-19 Is Imperiling the Jewish Day School]( Jewish day schools are already threatened. The virus may be more than they can handle. [BY EMILY BENEDEK](#) [Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech]( Is the liberal search for truth missing a sense of the common good, and a historically informed understanding of the violence of words? [BY BLAKE SMITH](#) [Human Sacrifice and the Digital Business Model]( Debates over free speech ignore the deeper problem: The tech monopolies that control social media have built their profit model on burnt offerings to the digital platform god [BY GEOFF SHULLENBERGER](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Backhanded Compliments]( Ep. 237: Professional tennis player Noah Rubin and the Jewish studies professor who wants to replace the 'Jewish American Princess' with a more modern archetype JULY 23, 2020 # [The Queen of the Jews]( [Remembering Amy Winehouse’s musical brilliance, humor, caring, self-loathing, and pain on her ninth yahrzeit](#) [BY EVE BARLOW](#) # [Mississippi in Yiddish]( [The story of a hugely popular play about African Americans falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama—that premiered in 1935 Warsaw](#) [BY ALYSSA QUINT](#) [Jack Mormons]( When I left the church, I found myself, and some Jewish roots [BY B. DUNCAN MOENCH](#) # [A Jewish Way to Remember]( [The first Jewish sacred space to commemorate miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths](#) [BY MARJORIE INGALL](#) # [Jewish Culinary Crossroads]( [Why did my grandmother cook gefilte fish and smoked eggplants, helzel and baklava? The answer lay in her Bessarabian heritage.](#) [BY JANNA GUR](#) # # 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](