Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, and DSK: Big Jews; Lee Smith on the Lebanonization of Syria; Barbara Probst Solomon remembers Jorge Semprún

Follow Tablet Magazine: August 18, 2011   Turkey Goes to the Mattresses Over Apology While Israel sits in the catbird seat Daybreak: Attack in Southern Israel Kills 5 Plus U.S. prepares to call for Assad to step down, and more in the news A Very Prolific Mohel At the forefront of Ukrainian circumcision needs The Birth of This Palestinian Refugee Problem Hamas puts down protest following Syrian displacement of 10,000 More from THE SCROLL Big Men Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are all a certain type: the Jewish Big, narcissistic, entitled, and unapologetic. And society loves to see a Jewish Big fall. BY Peter Savodnik During the Anthony Weiner dirty-tweeting scandal, no one had much to say about the Jewish congressman's religion. The same was true of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, also Jewish, when he was revealed to be frequenting prostitutes, and IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who's half-Jewish and half-Catholic, when he was pulled off an airplane and charged with rape. This is odd because it was their faith—their Jewishness—that was responsible, in a way, for their undoing. More Civil Blood The central issue in the Middle East is not the Arab-Israeli peace process but the Arab civil war that has been reignited by the so-called Arab Spring More BY Lee Smith Partisan The Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, who died in June, survived Buchenwald and had a love-hate relationship with Communism in postwar Europe. A longtime friend remembers his star power and derring-do. More BY Barbara Probst Solomon 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 | 37 West 28th Street, 8th floor | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend