Biden, Israel, and Iran; Provincetown’s Unitarian Universalists; Social Justice and Academic Freedom

[View this email in your browser]( June 21, 2023 • Tammuz 2, 5783 # [Biden’s Ties That Bind]( How the U.S. is working to constrain Israel before announcing its new Iran deal [BY MICHAEL DORAN](#) [Academic Freedom Is Social Justice]( Those of us who work in universities cannot allow polite fictions to be dressed up as facts [BY CAROLE HOOVEN](#) # [The Church at the Beach]( Provincetown’s Unitarian Universalists maintain their progressive traditions in a historic building in the middle of a popular LGBTQ resort town in Massachusetts [BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # TAKE ONE [Gittin 36]( In today’s Talmud page, we hear that the rabbis of the Talmud would sign documents with pictorial marks. Bringing this notion into our current reality, Stephanie Butnick joins us to explore the ways that emojis can be helpful in sharing complicated ideas succinctly. JUNE 21, 2023 IN THE SCROLL An ongoing surge in the number of millennials and Gen Zers living in G20 nations diagnosed with early-onset cancer is so extreme that some epidemiologists say it could be an epidemic. In a new Financial Times analysis of University of Washington School of Medicine data, cancer rates among 25- to 29-year-olds are up 22% from 1990 to 2019; for those between the ages of 20 and 34, the rates are higher than they’ve been in 30 years. [READ ALL ABOUT IT IN OUR AFTERNOON DIGEST]( # # 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](