Remembering Mike Wallace
Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace died Saturday at the age of 93. Wallace, well-known for his effective interview style, was born Myron Leon Wallace to Russian-Jewish parents in Brookline,...
View ArticleThe Gene that Went Mainstream
Today in Tablet Magazine, Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry and author Jeff Wheelwright track the meandering path of a deadly gene associated with the Jews but that has spread across peoples and continents. On...
View ArticleEli Yishai Bans Günter Grass From Israel
When Eli Yishai, Israel’s minister of the interior, read Günter Grass’ now-notorious poem, “What must be said,” last week, he had little doubt what must be done: Without mincing words, Yishai used his...
View ArticleSnowbirds
Each Monday, we choose the most interestingly Jewish announcement from that Sunday’s New York Times Weddings/Celebrations section. This week, it’s that of Kira Krieger and Samuel Senders, married...
View ArticleWhen Every Day Counts
Today in Tablet Magazine, Dr. Benjamin W. Corn meets a group of cancer patients who find solace and significance in a parallel between two seemingly opposite rituals: counting the Omer and counting the...
View ArticleReal Ex-Hasids of New York City
You could learn a whole lot more about Pearlperry Reich, Shauli Grossman, and Luzer Twersky thanks to Shunned, a reality show being shopped to networks. The show, the latest to hone in on an insular...
View ArticleNobody’s Business but the Turks
Today in Tablet Magazine, Jasmine Dilmanian profiles Habib Gerez, the 85-year-old Turkish-Jewish poet and painter living in a country where Jewishness is necessarily hidden. The Turkish Art of Love
View ArticleRegina Spektor Performance Hits Close to Home
Tablet contributor Ben Harris interviewed Russian-Jewish singer Regina Spektor after a performance at Lincoln Center in February. The concert, a benefit for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, was a...
View ArticleSundown: Dior Names Post-Galliano Director
• Belgian designer Raf Simons was named the new artistic director of Christian Dior (former director John Galliano was dismissed from the company in March 2011, after his drunken anti-Semitic...
View ArticleThe Most Anti-Israel President
“The policy of publicly humiliating our traditional ally has made us no new friends in the Arab world and removed the trust needed to encourage Israel to take risks for peace,” argues a prominent...
View ArticleAvigdor Arikha’s Art of Pain
To launch a slideshow of images from the current exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York, “Avigdor Arikha: Works from the Estate,” click the link at left. *** On March 10, 1965, a month before...
View ArticleTeenagers With a Mission
Recently I asked a group of my teenage Christian friends about their upcoming summer plans. Rather than receiving the standard responses, such as summer camps or vacations, I heard some unusual answers...
View ArticleDaybreak: Ahmadinejad’s Expiration Date
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranian media that Iran could withstand two to three years of not selling oil. The world wags its tail. [Haaretz] • Syrian troops fired on a refugee camp in Turkey yesterday....
View ArticleA Farewell to Chatter
It’s been three months since Russia pulled the teeth of a U.N. resolution meant to condemn Syria and a little less since the useless Arab League monitoring mission was suspended due to violence....
View ArticleEt Tu, President Reagan?
Today in Tablet Magazine, Yair Rosenberg reminds critics of President Obama’s Israel policy that it was once President Ronald Reagan being accused of bullying the Jewish state. On a completely...
View ArticleNew and Improved Way to Comment
Readers of the blog as well as the rest of Tablet Magazine may notice something different: from today going forward, all commenters on articles and blog posts will need to log in via Facebook, Google,...
View ArticleRangers Sign Kinsler For Big Bucks
As a new season dawns, Ian Kinsler has negotiated a whopping 75 million dollar five-year contract to stay with the Texas Rangers making him, at least for now, the highest paid second basemen in...
View ArticleThe Loyal Matzo Peddler
Adam Davidson has a fantastic piece in The New York Times Magazine touring the illustrious Streit’s matzo factory in the Lower East Side as he explores the economics of the matzo business. A niggling...
View ArticleSacred Trash Author Releases New Book
Peter Cole, the co-author of Nextbook Press’ Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of The Cairo Geniza, dropped a new anthology of poetry in translation today, The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse...
View ArticleNetanyahu Caught in Facebook Scandal!
Israeli politicians might want to fire their staff, because they’re clearly spending to much time on Facebook. After a Likud spokeswoman bragged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had hit 200,000...
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