From Moment, Adam Rovner on Madagascar: An Almost Jewish Homeland; Eric Alterman on the “pro-Israel” smear campaign; Clifford May on a world without Jews; David Frum on Netanyahu, the right leader for the right time; can Israel's electoral system be fixed?; and an interview with Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. From the Jewish Literary Supplement, and what book changed your life? Four notable Jewish writers on the books that affected them most. Why we can't get enough of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher: An excerpt from Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. A review of The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jonathan Webber. How Beethoven killed Black classical music: Rita Dove’s gorgeously engaging Sonata Mulattica weaves the narrative of a black virtuoso all but erased from musical history. A review of Blokes: The Bad Boys of British Literature by David Castronovo. There's no Klingon word for hello: A history of the gruff but surprisingly sophisticated invented language and the people who speak it (and more). From The Center for Public Integrity, a special report on The Roots of the Financial Crisis: Who Is to Blame? Michael Lewis reviews Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance.

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