Holocaust-doubter Israel Shamir, part II; ‘Tri-Faith America’; Marjorie Ingall on cutting

Follow Tablet Magazine: May 17, 2011   Huckabee and Kohl Out Political items! Daybreak: Out-of-Town Previews What Obama and Bibi will say (and what Abbas will be thinking), and more in the news Jews Prove Big Advocates for Gays in Sports David Stern, Ben Cohen fight for recognition in less-welcome arena More from THE SCROLL Three-Part Harmony A new book shows how Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan prompted the American establishment to look beyond longstanding divisions and see Catholics, Protestants, and Jews as kin BY Adam Kirsch After he was elected president in 1952, Dwight Eisenhower made a famous statement of belief that nicely summarized the mid-century American creed: "Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is." There is something absurd about the way the second part of the sentence casually annuls the first: If you don't care what people believe about God, how "deeply felt" can your own beliefs really be? What Eisenhower really seems to be saying is that religious people make good citizens—more bluntly still, that fear of God is needed to keep people in line. More His Jewish Problem A few years ago, Israel Shamir's anti-Israel vitriol would have been marginal and largely ignored. But in the age of WikiLeaks, a Holocaust-doubter can become a legitimate source of news. Part 2 of 2. More BY WILL YAKOWICZ Cutting Close Tween star Demi Lovato's recent admission that she'd engaged in self-harm casts light on what may be growing problem—both in the culture at large and among Jewish girls More BY Marjorie Ingall 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