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How ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’ Author Harold Kushner Helped Me...
My grandparents told me more than once that “life is about suffering,” and that the better I got at handling it, the stronger my character would be. So I have never been one to ask why, let alone why...
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Daybreak
• If you manage to stay up for the presidential debates–or managed to stay up through them–you’ll note the amount of sly references to swing states. Here’s a dispatch from a GOP and a Democratic...
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Coexistence March Nixed Because of Existence of Israelis
Well, this happened: Organizers of the Bethlehem Walk said Tuesday they have decided to cancel the event following strong protests and threats from Palestinian activists, who objected to the...
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Today on Tablet
Today on Tablet, our own Rachel Shukert has a look at the suddenly fashionably nature of Jewish weddings among intermarrying Hollywood starlets and how it carries over into the rest of American...
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Join Tablet Next Week For 'The Future of Jewish Food'
A little public service announcement: Next week, in collaboration with Mile End Deli and ABC Home, Tablet will be presenting an event on the future of Jewish food. It will be held in Manhattan on...
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For Banned Books Week, A List of Author Responses to Their Books Being Banned
In honor of Banned Books Week, the good folks over at Flavorpill have assembled a list of their favorite author responses to their books being banned. We’ve trimmed the list a bit. First, here’s...
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Today on Tablet
Today on Tablet, Lee Smith gathers advice from some of the titans of foreign policy about America’s role in the future of the Middle East. An impressive array of insights. Check it out here.Continue...
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Black Bar Mitzvahs
The first Black Bar Mitzvah, naturally, was Jay Z’s: In his song “ROC Boys,” he rapped about “Rich niggas / black bar mitzvahs / mazel tov, it’s a celebration bitches.” Then, for good measure, he...
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Robert Pinsky, the Former Poet Laureate on Carl Yastrzemski, the Former...
Readers of Robert Pinsky’s poetry would probably not be surprised to hear that his prose also bears many of his great qualities. The fluid, incisive economy that has made his elegant work shine through...
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Sundown
• Reports out of Jerusalem suggest that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pursue early elections with a target date of mid-February in 2013. [JPost] • Vandals in Brussels, Belgium...
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My Conversion to Judaism Wasn’t Complete Until I Encountered the Unimaginable...
Eight years ago, when I was studying to convert but hadn’t yet been to the mikveh, I experienced Simchat Torah for the first time. I had successfully made it through the High Holidays. Yom Kippur was...
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How Professor Judith Butler Helped Stoke a Dangerous Misunderstanding of...
On May 31, the city of Frankfurt announced that Berkeley professor Judith Butler would be feted with the Theodor W. Adorno prize, named after the late German Jewish philosopher who taught at the...
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Why Berkeley Professor Judith Butler Was the Right Recipient for the Adorno...
When word came in May that Berkeley professor Judith Butler was this year’s winner of the prestigious Adorno Prize, a small storm predictably ensued. But conspicuously missing from the discussion has...
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Daybreak
• Israeli riot police had to intervene at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday following a mob’s assault on Israeli security guards there. Light injuries were reported. [Times of Israel] • More...
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Introducing Continental Drift, Jamie Kirchick's New Column About Europe
Once a month we’re headed to Europe, and we’ve found the perfect tour guide. Jamie Kirchick, a longtime Tablet contributor now based in Berlin and a veteran traveler, has jetted everywhere from...
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Today on Tablet
Following an introspective first round of High Holidays, Siân Gibby had no idea what to expect when Simchat Torah erupted into a swell of wild dancing. At last, she writes, her conversion seemed...
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This Week in Jewcy: An Updated, Kid-Friendly Recipe for Kasha Varnishkas
Each week we bring you the best from Jewcy.com, our partner site. You never know when it’ll happen, and when it does you never know how to react. You’ll be innocently sitting at a table, minding your...
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This Week in Sheldon Adelson Schadenfreude : EuroVegas
It seems difficult to remember what the world was like before Sheldon Adelson emerged on the scene, handing out seven- and eight-figure checks to Republican candidates and birthing his own media...
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Today on Tablet
Yesterday on Tablet, we ran a story by our former office muse and art guru Margarita Korol. Unfortunately, the site went down for a little bit in the afternoon and so we didn’t get a good chance to...
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A Look Back at a Soviet Simchat Torah from 40 Years Ago
Rafael Medoff has a Simchat Torah story that looks back at Soviet Jewry in the early 1970s as the plight of the community there was entering the consciousness of American Jews. The story centers on...
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