The ‘Harper’s’ Letter and the Lynching Impulse; Grandparenting in the Age of COVID; American Jews and Israel; Youth as Protected Class; More

[View this email in your browser]( August 23, 2020 • Elul 3, 5780 # THE WEEKENDER # [Jews Without Israel]( Why do American Jews imagine that the political universalism that exceptionally coheres in the United States should apply in an ethnoreligious nation? [BY EINAT WILF AND OREN GROSS](#) # [Lynching and Liberalism]( [The ‘Harper’s’ ‘Letter on Justice and Open Debate’ extends a long American history of the defense of rational thought and free expression against the ideological coercions of the left](#) [BY](#)PAUL BERMAN [The Most Important Jewish Philanthropist You’ve Never Heard Of]( Harold Grinspoon struggled with reading as a child. Today he’s the man behind the world’s largest Jewish book program, PJ Library. [BY EMILY BENEDEK](#) [How Mustard Became the King of Jewish Condiments]( Its delicious legacy stretches from the corner deli all the way back to Abraham [BY EDIE JAROLIM](#) # [The Crown of Grandparenting]( Navigating the pandemic, separated from the ones we love [BY SHELLY R. FREDMAN](#) # [Young Love]( Thirty-year-old lawyers throwing bombs are ‘just kids,’ while 12-year-olds are prosecuted for ‘racism.’ How youth went from a stage of human development to a protected political class. [BY KAT ROSENFIELD](#) [Zoom Mitzvahs]( As parents plan bar and bat mitzvahs during the pandemic, a rite of passage is reimagined with new priorities to fit a new reality [BY PAULA JACOBS](#) [In Memoriam: Moshe Leib Weiser]( The rare-book collector and dealer, whose impact on the Jewish book world was immeasurable, died of COVID-19 at age 77 [BY PINI DUNNER](#) # # 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](