Daybreak: Hopeless, Syrian Rebels Get Fiercer
• Syrian rebels see the world’s obvious unwillingness to get involved and, naturally, assume they must pursue heavier armed conflict, in a spiral that risks spilling into civil or even regional war....
View ArticleOn Iran, Most Roads Lead to Bad Places
It feels like things involving Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program and the United States’ attempts to halt it are slowly but surely coming to a head. Yesterday’s to-do concerned a missive the Obama...
View ArticleAmbassador Eisen
Today in Tablet Magazine, Jamie Kirchick introduces Norman Eisen, the son of Czechoslovak Holocaust survivors and the current ambassador to the Czech Republic. The first member of his immediate family...
View ArticleA Pox on Neither of Their Houses
The Washington Post has a long write-up of the controversy over certain bloggers and staffers at the Center for American Progress and whether certain things they published were anti-Semitic or...
View ArticleYou Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Each week, we select the most interesting Jewish obituary. This week, it’s that of Frederica Sagor Maas, who wrote screenplays all the way back during the silent era—there were still words!—and who...
View ArticleNewsroom
Today in Tablet Magazine, senior writer Liel Leibovitz writes about +972, an Israeli Internet magazine published in English, whose readership is largely based outside of Israel. Wake-Up Call
View ArticlePapers of Record
The editor of the Jerusalem Post claims that Prime Minister Netanyahu told him that Israel “has two main enemies”: And I thought he was going to talk about, you know, Iran, maybe Hamas. He said, “It’s...
View ArticleDrawing Board
Today in Tablet Magazine, parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall wonders whether parents are wrong to overpraise their children’s artwork, and finds helpful answers in a new book on the subject. Homemade...
View ArticleAn All-Tablet Super Bowl?
In the National Football League playoffs, an impressive two of Tablet Magazine’s three teams from the beginning of the season (the third, you’ll recall, was the Chicago Bears) are still standing....
View ArticleSundown: ‘Our Putin’
• Ari Shavit on Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. [Haaretz] • Shmuel Rosner argues that President Obama could receive less than 70 percent of the Jewish vote. [Rosner’s Domain] • Syria’s Muslim...
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Frock Stars
One day last October, Chaya Chanin, an Orthodox Jewish woman, sent her two children to the zoo with a babysitter and transformed her three-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights into a high-end boutique. A...
View ArticleRegistered
On Sept. 29, 1929, a group of 20 or 30 Jewish men, draped in talleisim and chanting prayers, marched down North Union Street, the main thoroughfare in Olean, a small city in rural Western New York....
View ArticleAi Report
In late 2008, Alison Klayman’s roommate in Beijing told her that there may be work for her. A Chinese artist she was assisting wanted a short behind-the-scenes film made about his forthcoming...
View ArticleDaybreak: Talking in Turkey?
• At a news conference with his Iranian counterpart, Turkey’s foreign minister called for resuming nuclear negotiations immediately. [AP/NYT] • The Arab League’s mandate to monitor Syria expired...
View ArticleOpen Road
“Lost Books” is a weekly series highlighting forgotten books through the prism of Tablet Magazine’s and Nextbook.org’s archives. So blow the dust off the cover, and begin! In 1908, Viennese playwright...
View ArticleConsignment
Today in Tablet Magazine, Alyson Krueger visits the Frock Swap, a roving consignment shop offering fashionable—yet modest—finds for Brooklyn’s Orthodox women. Frock Stars
View ArticleA Jewish Guide to the South Carolina Primary
When? Tomorrow. Number of candidates actually contesting: Four. Who dropped out? Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry. The remaining candidates: Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum. Our sentimental...
View ArticleThe Jewish Character in ‘Downton Abbey’
Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (if he or she emails me at mtracy@tabletmag.com with his or her mailing address). This week’s winner is “Jenny,” who offered a...
View ArticleFilm Studies
Today in Tablet Magazine, Scroll editor Marc Tracy introduces Alison Klayman, whose documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is premiering this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. Ai Report
View ArticleWho by Fire, Who by Redistricting
Not one, not two, three, not four, but five incumbent Jewish congressmen are facing uphill re-election battles due to redistricting after the latest census in 2010. • There are two who have been lumped...
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