Housekeeping notes - by Emily Tamkin
We’re back!
Housekeeping notes: Aside from News and Stuff About Jews, this email is all housekeeping. On Monday, paid subscribers will get April’s ET Ask Home, a monthly questionnaire. However, there will be no regular edition of this newsletter next week, as I will be traveling. Wrapping up work and preparing for upcoming travel is also why you are not getting a a mini-essay this week. But after next week, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Paid subscribers also get the premium version of The Election Tricycle, a weekly podcast I co-host on this year’s elections in the United States, United Kingdom, and India. And I’ll be sure to send that out next week, too.
With that! Onto news, no views, and Jews.
THE NEWS
For the Washington Post, I reviewed Ronnie A. Grinberg’s Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, which I loved.
For the New Republic, I wrote about Biden’s West Bank settler sanctions and their power as a symbol versus their significance as policy (and what could close the gap between the two).
This week on the Election Tricycle, Rohan took us through how Indian elections work.
Relatedly, I thought this piece in the Drift on the contestation of Gandhi’s memory and legacy was incredibly well done.
I appreciated this Gary Younge New York Review Books essay on the multiple senses in which Britain is declining.
From Politico EU: “Georgia could soon introduce tough new rules clamping down on LGBTQ+ rights and barring public celebrations of same-sex relationships, if a new draft bill introduced by the country’s ruling party is passed.” (I am sure you got this from the “EU,” but just to be clear: This is about Georgia the country, not the southern state.)
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been imprisoned in Russia for one year. Journalism is not a crime and he should be free.
MY VIEWS ON…
…nothing!
I have no opinions to share this week. But check back in two weeks when I will make up for lost time and opinions!
AND SOME STUFF ABOUT JEWS
Haaretz has an interview with Asaf Elia-Shalev on his new book on the Israeli Black Panthers.
This, from CNN, is a good report on how progressive Jewish Democrats in Congress are managing this moment.
Also from CNN: “The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the government to stop funding religious schools whose students defy the country’s mandatory military service, posing one of the most serious threats to date for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.”
Here is Anshel Pfeffer on existential issues facing Israel’s government.
Related to my New Republic piece, from the Times of Israel: “Officials in Washington told the Israeli Finance Ministry that US sanctions against violent settlers are not intended to compel Israeli banks to close the accounts of targeted individuals, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.”
-ET
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