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New Brooklyn Restaurant Mason and Mug Puts an Artisanal Spin on Kosher Dining
With the recent arrival of several upscale new kosher restaurants in New York City, it’s pretty clear kosher cuisine is getting a facelift. But nothing is quite as unique—or fills so specific a need—as...
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Wilderness Torah Takes Judaism Back to Nature
Shortly after he finished law school in 2007, Zelig Golden went on a “vision quest” in California’s White Mountains with Rites of Passage. Although it was “a religiously universal program,” Golden...
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The Architecture of Miracles: Our Literary Critic's Weekly 'Daf Yomi' Talmud...
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. Imagine that you wanted to build an exact duplicate of your house, and you hired an architect to do the...
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The Muslim World's Intellectual Refuseniks
When it comes to the Muslim world, Western opinion-makers seem to have a taste for what Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci called “organic intellectuals”—figures whose intellectual and political virtue...
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A Dip in the Mikveh Became One of the Most Meaningful Parts of My Conversion...
After I decided to convert to Judaism, people started asking: “Are you going in the mikveh?” They spoke with raised eyebrows, their voices dropping into a whisper at the word, mikveh, as if it was an...
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13-Year-Old Bar Mitzvah Boy Preaches Marriage Equality in Inspiring D'var...
Let’s be honest, bar mitzvah d’var Torahs are usually pretty bland. It’s a tall order for a 13-year-old to offer a sophisticated analysis of a particular Torah portion—especially when most of the...
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It's OK to Admit It: Montreal Can Make a Bagel
Bagels, my friends, are not just sustenance. Apricots are sustenance. Granola is sustenance. A turkey burger is sustenance. But a bagel, no. A bagel is a sunrise. It is a cosmic pat on the shoulder....
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Today's News: Hitler Satire Becoming a Movie; N.Y. Menorah Vandalized; and More
• Bernard Madoff’s former CFO says Madoff’s employees knew about the fraud being carried out by the investment firm. [NY Post] • A public menorah in Ronkonkoma, NY was vandalized. [Newsday] Continue...
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Remembering Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the Bard of Czernovitz and the Bronx
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, a Yiddish singer, songwriter, poet, artist, and educator, died on Thanksgiving in her Bronx home at the age of 93. Schaechter-Gottesman’s songs about separation,...
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Billy Joel to Begin Monthly Residency at Madison Square Garden
Billy Joel will be ringing in 2014 at the semi-newly minted Barclays Center in Brooklyn. (To the chagrin of one Tablet senior writer, tickets are selling for thousands of dollars on StubHub.) But the...
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Designers of New York’s Highline Set Their Sights on Moscow’s Former Jewish...
Just east of the Kremlin, there is a fenced-off construction site. Once, this forlorn strip on the bank of the Moscow River was home to the neighborhood of Zaryadye—and to the artisans, traders, and...
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Anna Loshkin Photographs the Things Soviet Refuseniks Carried
Dec. 6 marks the 26th anniversary of Freedom Sunday, the 1987 march on Washington in support of Soviet Jewry and their right to emigrate. Many credit the rally, which gathered a quarter of a million...
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How Isaac Herzog Could Be Israel’s New Kingmaker
Two weeks ago, Isaac Herzog—son of Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president—won an overwhelming upset victory in the Labor Party primaries, ousting the incumbent Shelly Yachimovich. It was a virtual...
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Rabbi Rambo Teaches 'Knockout' Self-Defense on CNN
‘Rabbi Rambo’ Gary Moskowitz is back. The former police officer and karate black belt—who we profiled in 2009, when he was advocating for arming synagogue members during High Holiday services (there’s...
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The Rabbi and the Supreme Court: A Battle Over Frequent Flier Status
The Supreme Court heard a rather unusual case yesterday: the one about the rabbi suing Northwest Airlines over the termination of his frequent flier status. According to NPR, Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg...
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Major Hezbollah Leader Assassinated in Beirut
If you’re nurturing the hope that 2014 will be different and better than 2013, don’t look east. While many would welcome the news of the demise of Hassane Laqees, a senior Hezbollah figure thought to...
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Apply for a Paid Spring Internship at Tablet Magazine
Tablet is hiring two paid, part-time spring editorial interns. If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we’d love to hear from you. Interns will...
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Today's News: Bob Dylan's French Legal Woes; Bloomberg's $1 Million Prize;...
• Bob Dylan has been charged with inciting hate under French law for a 2012 comment in a Rolling Stone interview about Croatians. [NYT] • Tablet contributor Daniel Estrin spotted Israeli Prime Minister...
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Israeli Actress Gal Gadot Named Wonder Woman in 'Batman vs. Superman' Film
Israeli model and actor Gal Gadot has been cast as Wonder Woman in the upcoming Warner Bros. sequel to Man of Steel. The former Miss Israel, who turned 28 in April (and was thusly appointed ‘Scroll...
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Israeli Politician or Character on 'The Wire'?
This week, the AP reported on the phenomenon of Israeli politicians carrying on with their semi-important duties all while having slightly ridiculous nicknames. This isn’t anything new, but with the...
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