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On Thursday morning, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, New Jersey, took the unprecedented step of shutting down the area's Jewish institutions. Even in the face of the deadly and [...]

The most fun part of the Passover Seder is singing. Here are the tunes to each of the songs featured in Tablet's Passover Haggadah. 'Hatikvah' Continue reading 'Sing Along With [...]

Each generation is called to perform a Passover Seder, a ritual designed to help us imagine personally experiencing the exodus from Egypt. But how can we do this together, when [...]

The Jewish Book Council has announced the winners of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, and Tablet's The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between, is [...]

In solidarity with Jews across America, crowds in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, and Poway will gather on September 25 to show solidarity with communities that have been attacked this year. We will [...]

Tablet staffers will be around the country promoting our books, The 100 Most Jewish Foods, a Highly Debatable List, and The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, and a variety of other projects. [...]

Fifty-one years ago today, at 7:45 in the morning, Israel launched Operation Moked, dispatching nearly 200 of its jets to bomb Egypt's airfield, destroying 338 aircraft and killing dozens of [...]

Tablet reached the home of Milan Kundera, the great Czech novelist and friend of Philip Roth, in Paris. Kundera wasn't feeling well. After a formative visit to Eastern Europe in [...]

In an extraordinary departure from tradition, Britain's Board of Deputies, the country's highest Jewish communal authority, which prides itself on maintaining a strictly apolitical stance on a wide number of [...]

Tablet is hiring a paid, full-time summer editorial fellow. If you can take complex ideas and substantive arguments that you want to make, and turn them into things other people [...]

The recent controversy caused by the Polish government's amendments to the law on the Institute of National Memory has sparked a fiery debate, with historians, politicians, and community leaders weighing [...]

Tablet Top Ten: An entirely subjective list, presented in no particular order, of our 10 favorite articles from Tablet's Arts & Culture and News & Politics sections in 2017. 'Favorite' [...]

What, exactly, is the alt right? What are its ideological foundations, and who its founding fathers? Where did it rise from, and where may it go? These are questions we've [...]

Tablet is hiring two paid, part-time spring editorial interns. If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we'd love to hear from [...]

These are the plagues which the Holy One, Blessed by He, brought upon the Egyptians. Blood. Frogs. All Your Lovers and Your Lovers' Revenge. Chag Sameach. Continue reading 'The Second [...]

Kurt Andersen is the author of True Believers and host of the Peabody Award-winning public-radio program Studio 360. In 1986, he co-founded Spy magazine, the satirical monthly whose cast of [...]

Editor's Note: On Fridays we publish a selection of letters our readers have sent to us regarding articles and podcasts published the week prior on Tablet. On Adam Kirsch's 'The [...]

Last week, Tablet asked readers and friends what they want to hear from President Obama in his live webcast to the Jewish community on Friday afternoon. We received many responses. [...]

Chuck Schumer is a politiciana skilled and successful one. Which means that today's announcement, following months of wildly uncharacteristic silence, that the senior Senator from New York is opposing the [...]

Tablet Magazine, a leading online destination for Jewish news, life, and culture, is hiring a full-time art director. Responsibilities include helping conceive art for 3-4 daily feature articles, corresponding with [...]

Two weeks ago, Lee Smith wrote a column saying that Martin Indyk, John Kerry's Middle East peace envoy, in his capacity as vice president and director of the Foreign Policy [...]

Last month, we published an article by Richard Landes in which the historian and author argued that together with the nakba, or catastrophe, that befell Palestinians in 1948 was an [...]

Each Friday, Tablet publishes a work of original fiction. The following is an excerpt from Planetary Science, by Emily Adelsohn Corngold, which was published today on Tablet. 'I wonder what [...]

'April is the cruellest month, breeding,' sang T.S. Eliot. 'Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,' launched Chaucer. Sayeth Tablet, 'Yea, April is National Poetry Month.' Our archives are proudly [...]

Brandeis University's decision to withdraw an honorary degree from the activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is yet another shameful reminder of how limp the commitment of Jewish institutions to [...]

If you're reading this, you like us, or, at the very least you revel, as we do, in the glorious past and the boundless future of Jewish journalism. If that's [...]

'April is the cruellest month, breeding,' sang T.S. Eliot. 'Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,' launched Chaucer. Sayeth Tablet, 'Yea, April is National Poetry Month.' Our archives are proudly [...]

If you're reading this, you like us, or, at the very least you revel, as we do, in the glorious past and the boundless future of Jewish journalism. If that's [...]

'April is the cruellest month, breeding,' sang T.S. Eliot. 'Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,' launched Chaucer. Sayeth Tablet, 'Yea, April is National Poetry Month.' Our archives are proudly [...]

In 2012, during the run-up to the summer Olympics in London, many in the Jewish communitythis magazine includedwere bitterly disappointed with the International Olympic Committee's refusal to hold a moment [...]

Last week, we published an editorial arguing that Jonathan Pollard's continued imprisonment sends a chilling message to American Jews that they are all potential traitors to their country, evincing a [...]

It should be ever more difficult for patriotic Jewish Americansor anyone else, for that matterto believe that Jonathan Pollard, who has spent 29 years in prison for passing secret intelligence [...]

Five years after Bernard Madoff admitted to his sons, and then to federal investigators, that he had been running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, the saga of his monumental [...]

In his new book, My Promised Land, the Israeli journalist Ari Shavit deftly sifts through the history of Zionism to explore and illuminate the tensions and contradictions underpinning the foundation [...]

On Monday, we published Theodore Sasson's examination of the recent Pew Research Center survey. The Pew Center's Alan Cooperman, deputy director of the Religion & Public Life Project, and Gregory [...]

Kibbutzim are known for giving the real life Socialist experience. Unsurprisingly, that tends to mean that the food is terrible. But as Dana Kessler reports, that might all be changing [...]

For those of you within trekking distance of New York–or for those of you who fancy an occasion to make the trip–Tablet is hosting a panel about the past and [...]

Today on Tablet, parenting columnst Marjorie Ingall writes about smartphone etiquette in a time when abuse of technology (i.e. sexting during seder) is as ubiquitous as the iPhone itself. Ignall [...]

Each Friday we bring you a look at what's going on over at Jewcy.com, our partner site. This week, Culture Kvetch columnist Jacob Silverman takes on our ultimately distracting obsession [...]

Each Friday we bring you a look at what's going on over at Jewcy.com, our partner site. This week, an American Jew living in Ukraine comes across an antique menorah [...]

For the Israel-obsessed, culinary fascinations tend to hover around hummus, falafel, schwarma, and bamba. But what about sabich? Dana Kessler reports on the man who's the snack's greatest champion. As [...]

On November 14, the Israel Defense Forces targeted and killed Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas strongman and military chief in Gaza, in the opening salvo of Operation Pillar of Defense. The [...]

As we mentioned yesterday, we've launched our 2012 Reader Survey, which helps us get a better idea of what readers like you think of Tablet. Please take a moment to [...]

We here at Tablet are a picky bunch when it comes to food, so when we got to thinking about Rosh Hashanah, the tradition of dipping apples in honey to [...]

Today on Tablet, Adam Kirsch takes a sharp look at the poet Frederick Seidel, his fearlessness, and his unforgiving verse. Check it out here. Continue Reading 'Today on Tablet' [...]

Though fears of tropical storm Isaac (the most talked about since biblical days) delayed the official start of the Republican National Convention, Tablet's correspondent Yair Rosenberg would not be deterred. [...]

Today on Tablet, Jacob Silverman reads through the recently translated books of Serbian writer Danilo KiÅ¡–who wrote much about the Holocaust–and finds an injustice in his work not being better [...]

Amos Oz remains Israel's perpetual long-shot to bring home the country's second Nobel Prize in Literature (S.Y. Agnon won the first). Today on Tablet, Adam Kirsch takes a look at [...]

Herman Melville is known for many things, one of which is not his fateful trip to Jerusalem. He went in the aftermath of a disappointing response to his book Moby [...]

Today on Tablet, Tal Miller reports on the world of blind golf, whose champion Zohar Sharon lost his sight serving in the IDF. Check out this amazing story [...]