The world's fastest Jew at the Bonneville Salt Flats; Moses can't get into Israel, but others leave; the prophetic poetry of Joseph Lease

Follow Tablet Magazine: August 12, 2011   Yiddishist Torn Lost Books Daybreak: Clinton Demands Pressure on Syria Plus, IDF wants U.S. equipment, no matzah for Rikers inmate, and more in the news Community Rallies Behind London Barber After Aaron Biber's barbershop was looted, he received an outpouring of support More from THE SCROLL Speed Israeli-born land-speed racer Amir Rosenbaum is the fastest Jew on earth. This weekend, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, he hopes to take his machine, the Infidel, back into the rarified territory of 400 miles per hour. BY MIRIAM COLEMAN For a week beginning August 13, some 500 vehicles will descend on the Bonneville Salt Flats just outside Wendover, Utah, a 3,000-square-mile field of blinding white terrain so flat that you can see the curvature of the earth. One at a time the machines, ranging from tiny motorbikes to freight trucks, will blaze for five miles across the flats, testing the limits of automotive technology against the clock. More Another Exodus As told in this week's parasha, Moses couldn't enter the Promised Land. My three brothers, the subjects of my latest documentary film, chose to leave it. More BY TOMER HEYMANN Prophet Margin The poet Joseph Lease waxes prophetic while wondering what prophesy can mean in an age of corporate greed and round-the-clock cable news More BY David Kaufmann 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