Comey, Trump, and the trouble with conspiracy theories; Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on Israeli-Palestinian coexistence; synagogue signs; more

Courtney Love slams Linda Sarsour on Twitter for anti-Semitism [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Rss]( [Podcast]( [Np]( June 9, 2017 [America’s Descent Into Middle Eastern-Style Conspiracy-Theory Madness]( [Largeimage]( Lee Smith How the once-sturdy institutions of our democracy—the press, the intelligence community, political parties—have been used to legitimize a conspiracy theory, and why those theories are so hard to disprove [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Book Reviews / Liel Leibovitz [The Accidental Tourists]( A new anthology, edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, inadvertently and correctly argues that coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians is an illusion. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Notebook / Paula Jacobs [Signs of the Times]( Rabbi Michael Strassfeld is spending his retirement collecting signs from shuttered shuls. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Courtney Love Slams Linda Sarsour, Calls Her ‘a Vile Anti-Semite’]( ‘I know a rat when I see one,’ said Love, referring to Sarsour’s fundraising tactics [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [There Were Once Jews Here]( During the Six-Day War, some of the Arab countries at war with Israel—Egypt, Tunisia, Libya—treated their Jewish populations terribly, causing them to leave en masse [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Mensches on Motorcycles]( For its annual Ride 2 Remember, the Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance convenes in a new city every June, raising money for Holocaust awareness along the way [Read This]( ADVERTISEMENT [Ad]( [Visit Tablet]( This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend](