Girls Just Wants to Have Fun
A young woman writing comedy is a lot like a black man driving a BMW. These minorities attract attention from a suspicious number of people because of the prevailing assumptions that rumble under even...
View ArticleDaybreak: Bibi and Fayyad to Say Hi
• Prime Minister Fayyad will head to Jerusalem to hand-deliver President Abbas’ list of negotiation preconditions to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has insisted that talks begin without preconditions....
View ArticleOmar Comin’?
There was a time when Omar Suleiman’s succession of President Hosni Mubarak was practically pre-ordained. The longtime head of military intelligence (better known as the Mukhabarat), Suleiman was...
View ArticleGals. No, Wait.
Today in Tablet Magazine, comedy writer Jen Spyra breaks with Tablet senior writer Liel Liebovitz by praising Lena Dunham’s new HBO series, Girls. Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Earlier: The Unbearable...
View ArticleWikiLeaks’ Assange Hosts Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
Julian Assange, the impresario behind the anti-privacy organization WikiLeaks, began hosting his new television show today—complete with ankle bracelet; he is in England awaiting potential extradition...
View ArticleNeighborhood Watch
Today in Tablet Magazine, David B. Green reports that Israeli Arabs are increasingly moving into Jewish towns. They’re finding that their new neighbors aren’t waiting with a casserole. The Arabs Next...
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If Russ & Daughters Made Nail Polish
The crown jewel in the spring 2012 collection from nail polish company OPI is a color called ‘I Have a Herring Problem.’ The color joins ‘Vampsterdam’ and ‘A Roll in the Hague’ in a new collection...
View ArticleBully Pulpit
Today on Tablet, parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall takes on the new documentary Bully, which she says is high on sermon and short on solutions. How to Stop a Bully Earlier: Born to Bully
View ArticleThe Tax Lawyer You Wish You Had
Happy (?) Tax Day! (Yes, it is very late this year, sorta how Yom Kippur is some years.) To balance out your feelings toward this process, here—courtesy frequent tipster AA—is the best professional...
View ArticleNIF Takes on ‘Religious Extremists’ Over Sexism
The New Israel Fund has taken out a full-page ad (preview here) in tomorrow’s New York Times asking for donations in the name of combating the mistreatment of immigrants, Arab citizens, and...
View ArticleSundown: Run, Suleiman Can’t?
• Wow: reportedly, an elections panel has definitively ended Omar Suleiman’s bid to be Egypt’s president. [Haaretz] • Barbara Walters talks S&M. Swear to God. [Page Six] • Peter Beinart responds to...
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Cooking Up Spain’s Jewish Past
Downstairs in the kitchen at La Vara, a 44-seat Spanish restaurant that opened in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood a few weeks ago, a line cook tosses hunks of marinated lamb into a pressure cooker....
View ArticleI.B. Singer, the Last Demon
“Scripture” is a series exploring 20th-century Jewish fiction. For American Jews, one legacy of the Holocaust is a sense of guilty nostalgia toward the life of our ancestors in Eastern Europe. The...
View ArticleChristians for Palestine
For most American Jews and Israelis, evangelical Christians are synonymous with zealous, biblically inspired support of the Jewish state—so zealous, in fact, that it makes some Jews uneasy. But the...
View ArticleDaybreak: Abbas Just Drops Netanyahu a Note
• The Palestinians delivered President Abbas’ letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Literally nobody expects anything to come of it. The only intrigue is that Prime Minister Fayyad withdrew from the...
View ArticleNuclear Diplomacy, Crazy Enough to Work?
As we know, when Washington Post columnist David Ignatius writes about Iran, there’s a good chance he is giving voice to administration sentiments, and that’s certainly one way to read today’s column....
View ArticleDown by the Riverside to the Sea
Today in Tablet Magazine, Lee Smith explores the world’s largest Zionist denomination—evangelical Christianity—where a growing minority are aligning themselves with the Palestinian cause. Christians...
View ArticleIn ‘Time,’ Erdogan, and Cantor on Netanyahu
The annual Time 100—the magazine’s list of the “most influential people” in the world, made interesting and fun by the novelty of having these famous and notable people’s blurbs written by other famous...
View ArticleFretish
Today in Tablet Magazine, contributing editor Adam Kirsch returns to the timeless work of Isaac Bashevis Singer whose uneasy rebelliousness towards his pious European roots suggested fetish in both...
View ArticleSchnabel Finds a New Muse
After Julian Schnabel, 60, left his second wife for Rula Jebreal, 38, Schnabel—the downtown scenester, artist, director, and jovial Jew—made his most controversial film yet, Miral, which dealt with the...
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