Biden’s Definition of Antisemitism; Asian Americans and Civil Rights; Good Politics and Bad Art; Martin Peretz on Harvard; a Hitler Book; Pentacostals

Barbie and Oppenheimer • [View this email in your browser]( July 16, 2023 • Tammuz 27, 5783 THE WEEKENDER VOL. 2, ISSUE 25 [DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ISSUE]( # [How False History Is Used to Justify Discrimination Against Asian Americans]( The Civil Rights Movement didn’t pave the way for Asian American success in America. A Jewish immigration activist did. [BY SHELUYANG PENG](#) # [The Biden Administration Redefines Antisemitism]( And excludes today’s most pernicious form of Jew-hatred [BY EUGENE KONTOROVICH](#) # [Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art]( Affirmation is available everywhere. Why ruin aesthetics? [BY ALICE GRIBBIN](#) # [Christians and Jews at Harvard]( The delicate relationship between two distinct cultures that helped shape America’s leading university [BY MARTIN PERETZ](#) # [A Church’s Quest for Enchantment]( Pentecostals try to find their place within the larger Christian world [BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS](#) # [My Hitler Book]( What am I supposed to do with it? [BY KEVIN NELSON](#) # [The Bold Jewish Woman Who Created Barbie]( How Ruth Handler dreamed up the doll that feminists loved—or loathed [BY SUSAN SHAPIRO](#) # [Robert Oppenheimer’s Jewishness]( 78 years to the day after the Trinity nuclear test ushered in the nuclear age, are we any closer to knowing the men who carried the moral burden of the world on their shoulders? Louisa Hall’s recent novel spins out some ideas. [BY BRIDGET KEVANE](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Lesson Plans]( Ep. 371: Benyamin Cohen on ‘The Einstein Effect,’ plus a look behind the scenes of the new Israeli TV show ‘The Lesson’ JULY 13, 2023 # # 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](