Obama: Fact and Fiction; Elite Lawlessness; Vaccines and Military Readiness; Israel and Armenia; Pinchas Goldschmidt and Russian Jewry; LGBTQ and YU

[View this email in your browser]( August 6, 2023 • Av 19, 5783 THE WEEKENDER VOL. 2, ISSUE 28 [DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ISSUE]( # [The Obama Factor]( A Q&A with historian David Garrow [BY DAVID SAMUELS](#) # [Thinning the Ranks]( Using vaccines as a political weapon, U.S. military leaders have wrecked the force’s combat readiness and morale, current and former soldiers tell Tablet [BY CLAYTON FOX](#) HIROSHIMA AND THE ATOMIC AGE [Christopher Nolan’s new biopic shows J. Robert Oppenheimer as he really was—an American Prometheus divided at his core]( [How the search for a singular victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb led back to Buchenwald]( [A look back at decades of debate by rabbis, politicians, and philosophers about the ethics of atomic warfare]( # [The Culture of Transgression]( Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class [BY MICHAEL LIND](#) # [It’s Bad to Be a Sheep]( What Israel can learn from Armenia’s misplaced reliance on a superpower patron [BY ARMIN ROSEN](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Rocky Mountain High Notes]( Ep. 374: Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway’s new single, plus a trip Across the JEW.S.A. to Colorado AUGUST 3, 2023 # [The Future of Russian Jewry]( After more than three decades as Moscow’s chief rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt left the country following the invasion of Ukraine. Now he’s urging the Russian capital’s Jews to leave, saying ‘the future is not as bright as it was.’ [BY HILLEL KUTTLER](#) # [LGBTQ+ at Yeshiva University: The Path Forward]( Learning from the past to engage with the future [BY NETANEL ZELLIS-PALEY AND E.Y. ZIPRIS](#) # # 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](