9/11-inspired flag art; the Hasidic response to 9/11; Hakeem Olajuwon, Islamic American icon; more

To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book Follow us: September 9, 2011 Returning to Myron Lost Books Daybreak: Mad Mel Makes Maccabee? Plus mysterious goings-on with Egypt, and more in the news Tell Your Life In Six Words The Jewish Internet in the flesh Israeli Soldiers Barred from Turkey Match IDF orders Maccabi Tel Aviv players not to travel to hostile land GOP Jews, Koch Weigh In on Post-Weiner Race Weprin-Turner in overdrive More from The Scroll » White Flags By Siân Gibby — After Sept. 11, artist Aaron Fein began to make national flags out of white fabric; they became symbols not of nations but of community and refuge Divine Right The Sept. 11 attacks altered many people's convictions. For ultra-Orthodox Jews, they reinforced a strongly held belief in divine authority. By Jeffrey Shandler Dream Land Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon was exactly the ambassador for Islam Americans needed after Sept. 11 By Adam Chandler Instrumentals Agenda: Leni Riefenstahl screens in Manhattan, I.L. Peretz revived in L.A., caricatures by David Levine at the Met, and more By Stephanie Butnick Out of Tune When Israelis and Palestinians choose politics over music, they're guilty of the gravest offense in the Torah: acting like Amalek By Liel Leibovitz 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 Unsubscribe|Forward to a Friend