See and Acknowledge
Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (provided he or she emails Marc Tracy at mtracy@tabletmag.com with his or her mailing address). This week’s winner was very...
View ArticleSundown: Cracks in the Matzoh
Happy end of Passover! Tablet will be dark until Monday. And hey! Go vote for us at the Webby Awards! • Paul Berger finds another big flaw in last weekend’s New York Times Magazine story about the...
View ArticleDumb, Dumberer, and Dumberest
Some people think Ebenezer Scrooge is— Well, he’s not. But guess who is … All Three Stooges! —Adam Sandler, “The Chanukkah Song” (1996) Personally, I’ve yet to meet anyone who mistook Charles Dickens’...
View ArticleFleeing Assad’s Troops
Since the uprising in Syria began more than a year ago, at least 20,000 Syrians have fled the murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad to find some safety in refugee camps on the Turkish border or in...
View ArticleAging Survivors Can’t Forget
Many of the estimated 200,000 living Holocaust survivors face a new trauma in their final years, as they are overwhelmed by terrible memories they’ve successfully contained for 70 years. In some cases,...
View ArticleWhat My Nanny Left Me
It was a supreme role reversal, as I stood next to my former nanny’s bed in Newark’s Beth Israel Hospital, feeding her Kozy-Shack rice pudding and wiping the residue from her lips. No longer a boy with...
View ArticlePhilip Levine, Fierce About Poetry
To read a selection of poems by Philip Levine, including “Library Days,” “The Seventh Summer,” and “Growth,” click here. This year, 83-year-old Philip Levine, poet of the working class, was appointed...
View ArticleDaybreak: Egypt’s Presidential Race Disarrayed
• Egypt’s Islamist-dominated Parliament disqualified ten candidates in the presidential elections set to begin next month, but notably three front-runners: Khairat el-Shater, of the Muslim Brotherhood;...
View ArticleAfter Iran Nuclear Talks, No News Is Good News
The New York Times’ Steven Erlanger is a good journalist, so when he writes a report that at times reads like Lewis Carroll, it’s safe to chalk this up not to poor (or intentionally funny) writing but...
View ArticleForget-me-nots
Today in Tablet Magazine, Vox Tablet reporter Karen Brown finds that for many Holocaust survivors the twilight years are being haunted by the remembrance of old horrors. Aging Survivors Can’t Forget
View ArticleEggers Continues Grass-Related Boycott-a-Thon
Over the weekend, the American novelist and McSweeney’s impresario Dave Eggers announced he would decline to travel to Germany to receive something called the Albatross award, because it is given by...
View ArticleWasted Away Again in Margarine-Ville
Each Monday, we choose the most interestingly Jewish announcement from that Sunday’s New York Times Weddings/Celebrations section. Some Mondays, this is difficult. This is not one of those Mondays....
View ArticleThe Flight
Today in Tablet Magazine, photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie shares the story and images from his seven days covering the war in Syria before Bashar Assad’s army forced a retreat across the Turkish border...
View ArticleIDF’s Religion Problem Displayed in Assault
On Saturday, 250 Israeli and Palestinian peace activists got together for a bike ride in the Jordan Valley. Somewhere between Jericho and the village of Jiptlik, they were stopped by IDF soldiers. What...
View ArticleClose Friend of the Mag Takes Home Pulitzer
They already won a Polk, but today, the Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, and Chris Hawley won the Pulitzer Prize (the frickin’ Pulitzer Prize!) for Investigative...
View ArticleMade in Detroit
Today in Tablet Magazine, Jake Marmer interviews U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine, the brilliant bard of a town with a rich and dangerous Jewish history: Detroit. My family did not come to the United...
View ArticleSundown: How Many Jews at Malek’s Party?
• Tonight, Fred Malek is hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney, which should be awkward given Malek’s history of Jew-counting for Nixon. [Politico] • Even more awkward (though in a less unpleasant way)?...
View ArticleHow to Stop a Bully
The documentary Bully opened nationwide on Friday. Critics raved. But while its intentions are good, Bully is a lousy movie. First off, it’s torture porn. The movie revels in scenes of violence: a kid...
View ArticleThe Arabs Next Door
Until a year ago, Tahani Soliman, a 37-year-old Israeli Arab, says she didn’t feel any strong connection to Upper Nazareth, the Central Galilee town where she lives with her husband and two children....
View ArticleThe Devil in Sarah Stein
Soon, contemporary children’s fiction will be too far removed from the events of the last century to plausibly include characters with even the most attenuated ties to the Holocaust. That day hasn’t...
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