A Hanukkah Gut Check; Decoding ‘Maoz Tzur’; Bernard-Henri Lévy’s ‘Heroes’

[View this email in your browser]( December 7, 2023 • Kislev 24, 5784 # [More Light]( We asked how you’re feeling. This is what you said. BY TABLET MAGAZINE # [Who Is ‘The Red One’?]( This Hanukkah, delving into the mystery behind ‘Maoz Tzur’ [BY STUART HALPERN](#) [As Hanukkah Begins, a Call to Reconsider Jewish Giving]( This holiday is about battling the erasure of Jews and Judaism from public life. To fight it today, the least we can do is stop supporting rotten institutions. [BY](#)THE EDITORS LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Shine Bright]( Ep. 392: Celebrating the beauty of Hanukkah with Jonathan Adler, Homegrown Kosher, and more DECEMBER 7, 2023 [Do Black Hebrew Israelites Hate Jews?]( A new survey shows that a controversial group is both more numerous and more complicated than press reports have suggested [BY CHARLES FAIN LEHMAN](#) [A Masterpiece of Thought and Feeling]( French intellectual superstar Bernard-Henri Lévy’s affecting new war documentary shows us how ordinary people become heroes [BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ](#) [Advertisement](#) [Goodbye to Verdugo]( Sometimes it feels better to live among your own kind, even if they’re Jewish [BY JEREMY STERN](#) IN THE SCROLL In a post on X, Bill Ackman, the billionaire investor and Harvard alumnus who has become a leading critic of the university’s response to radical student protests, called the testimony of Harvard President Claudine Gay and other university leaders “the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress” and declared that they “must all resign in disgrace.” That sentiment was echoed by former U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who urged Gay to resign or be fired, and by a chorus of critics on social media who pointed out the problem with university administrators who, in other circumstances, have bent over backward to police speech in the name of preventing perceived harms but are suddenly drawing the line at calls for a global intifada. [READ ALL ABOUT IT IN OUR AFTERNOON NEWS 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](