The children’s book that introduced a generation of Jews to Israel; an American song for Israeli Independence Day; more

Fighting anti-Semitism on the progressive left [Tablet Logo] [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Podcast]( [Np]( April 18, 2018 [The Children’s Book That Introduced Young Americans to the New Jewish State]( [Largeimage]( Jenna Weissman Joselit On Yom Ha’atzmaut, looking back at Habibi’s Adventures in the Land of Israel, from 1951 [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Book Reviews / Anne Landsman [My Parents’ Israel, My Apartheid]( A South African goes home to Israel [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Fiction and Essays / Liz Rose [An Outsider in Jerusalem]( Like a vampire, I fit nowhere in Israel but inside the real and made-up stories of lovers and others. Fifty years after the end of the Six-Day War, a look back at the monsters and myths of youth. [Read This]( [Smallimage]( United States / David P. Goldman [Americans, the Almost-Chosen People]( On Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, lessons for our world from theirs [Read This]( [Smallimage]( Music / David Tenenbaum [A Song About Israel]( An American ballad, on the Jewish state’s Independence Day [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Senator Calls on Progressives to Fight Anti-Semitism Within Their Ranks]( “It’s easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say: ‘Enough! Do better!'” said Hawaii’s Brian Schatz. “It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.” [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Jewish Stars: A Conversation with Joshua Rush]( The Disney star on his real life and on-air Bar Mitzvahs, balancing his faith and his schedule, and the pleasures of doing the hora [Read This]( [Smallimage]( [Senior Labour Official Under Fire for Posting a Fake Image of an Israeli Jet Bombing Iran]( The hits keep on coming for Jeremy Corbyn’s gang [Read This]( ADVERTISEMENT [Ad]( [Visit Tablet]( 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 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend](