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Hygiene Demonstration

Comment of the Week

by
Stephanie Butnick
August 05, 2011
(Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine )
(Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine )

Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (provided he or she emails me at
[email protected] with his or her mailing address).

This week’s winner is “Dan,” who responded to Etgar Keret’s depiction of a highly civilized—if somewhat unfocused—Tel Aviv demonstration against rising costs of living with this insight: “this is how a demonstration looks like in a real democracy; no violence but also with much deodorant!”

Touche. Dan gets a copy of Sacred Trash, by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, which harkens back to a time when achievements were vast, the sun blazing, and the deodorant probably hard to come by.

Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.