The world's best honey cake, according to science; Shimon Peres on Israeli nukes; why the Internet is bad for Jews; Joan Nathan's plum tart; more

Why being Jewish is so expensive—and what to do about it [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Rss]( [Podcast]( [Np]( September 17, 2017 [How Israel Went Nuclear]( [Largeimage]( Shimon Peres The father of Israel’s nuclear deterrent reveals how it was built. An exclusive excerpt from No Room For Small Dreams, Shimon Peres’ posthumous autobiography. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Notebook / Liel Leibovitz [Why the Internet Is Bad for the Jews]( And what to do about it [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Middle East / Lee Smith [Democratic and Republican Elites Are Using Trump to Whitewash 16 Years of Foreign-Policy Disasters]( Successive two-term administrations made a mess of the Middle East. Who will clean up? [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Food / Joan Nathan [How To Make a Rosh Hashanah Dessert That’s Not Just Apples and Honey]( Video: Use a different ‘new fruit’ and try this Italian plum tart [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Observance / Abigail Pogrebin [High Holiday Services Are Boring. Here’s How We Can Fix Them.]( Rabbis and congregants alike have made synagogue dull. But together we can make it more meaningful and more compelling. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Here’s the World’s Best Honey Cake, According to Science]( Supposedly the best honey cake in the history of the universe. We’ll see. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [The Real Reason Why Being Jewish is Expensive, and What to Do About It]( Forget spirituality; try economics instead [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Hurricane Irma ‘Hot Cop’ in Trouble for Posting Holocaust Jokes, Praise for Hitler]( The Internet star who rose to fame with a selfie had much darker stuff on his social media channels [Read This]( [Visit Tablet]( This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th Floor | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend](