Joan Nathan on Israeli immigrant cooks; Shakespeare's politics; ultra-Orthodox neighborhood watches in Brooklyn

Follow Tablet Magazine: May 26, 2011   What's Up With Stanley Fish? The dumbest blogpost you'll ever read (and no, it's not this one) Daybreak: Political Israel Plus Bibi gains popularity at home, and more in the news Despite Everything, Tiki Barber Is Good at Heart Once and future running back unleashes Holocaust analogy More from THE SCROLL Kitchen Aid A philanthropic effort helps low-income immigrant Israeli women build small businesses by cooking the dishes they know best. It's a good program, and it's delicious food. BY Joan Nathan When I visited Beit Shemesh, not far from Jerusalem, earlier this spring, almonds were bursting into white bloom in the countryside. I was in search of good home cooks, and here in the biblical home of the Kohanim, the priests of the tribe of Levi, I found them. More Watchmen Shomrim—controversial Jewish neighborhood watch groups—patrol the Orthodox enclaves of Brooklyn, where safety's battles are fought along exclusive ethnic and community lines More BY JACOB SUGARMAN Politics and Poetry Trying to make sense of Shakespeare's politics, a complicated web of ideas and contradictions that attracted and repelled some of modern history’s most notorious leaders More BY STEPHEN MARCHE This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 295 Lafayette Street, Suite 501 | New York, NY 10012 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend