Understanding ‘Proportionality’; Hanukkah’s Defiant Spirit

[View this email in your browser]( December 5, 2023 • Kislev 22, 5784 # [How Israel Missed Its Chance to Eliminate the Leadership of Hamas]( The widely misunderstood doctrine of proportionality can have wildly disproportionate consequences [BY SHLOMO M. BRODY](#) THURSDAY IN BROOKLYN [CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP]( # [The Battle Cry of Hanukkah]( It’s time to bring back the spirit of Jewish defiance and anti-assimilation [BY ARYNNE WEXLER](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # TAKE ONE [Bava Kama 33]( Can you sell something you don't actually own? DECEMBER 5, 2023 IN THE SCROLL Somebody made millions of dollars shorting Israeli stocks in the five days prior to the Oct. 7 attacks. A new paper from Robert J. Jackson Jr., former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Joshua Mitts, an expert on short-selling at Columbia Law School, found a “sharp and unusual increase” in “trading in risky short-dated options on [Israeli] companies expiring just after the attacks,” on both the New York and Tel Aviv stock exchanges. [READ ALL ABOUT IT IN OUR AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER]( # # 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](