The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most compelling images, thousands of rabbis attempt a selfie, a flock of sheep meanders, and more












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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.
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How space travel changes your brainUnder the Radar Space shifts the position of the brain in the skull, causing orientation problems that could complicate plans to live on the Moon or Mars
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How Iran protest death tolls have been politicisedIn the Spotlight Regime blames killing of ‘several thousand’ people on foreign actors and uses videos of bodies as ‘psychological warfare’ to scare protesters
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Departure(s): Julian Barnes’ ‘triumphant’ final book blends fact with fictionThe Week Recommends The Booker prize-winning novelist ponders the ‘struggle to find happiness and accept life’s ending’
