Tablet Magazine

10 May 2024

2 Iyar 5784

"We arrived in Tortoreto, in the Abruzzi, after two days of traveling, sleeping on benches in stations, and changing trains." A 1941 drawing shows some of Steinberg's possessions, not long after his arrival at Villa Tonelli.

Saul Steinberg’s Beach House

The celebrated artist’s little-known imprisonment in an Italian villa by the sea during the Holocaust

byBill Tonelli

The Americans Fighting—and Dying—for Israel

On Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, remembering those who’ve died in battle since Oct. 7, including three U.S.-born ‘lone soldiers’

byHillel Kuttler

Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a protest against the war in Gaza at Emory University on April 25, 2024

Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real?

Taxpayers, politicians, and employers are realizing that campus leftism has gone too far. The question is whether it’s too late to stop it.

byRichard Hanania

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Coming home

May 10, 2024

The Americans Fighting—and Dying—for Israel

On Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, remembering those who’ve died in battle since Oct. 7, including three U.S.-born ‘lone soldiers’

byHillel Kuttler

Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real?

Taxpayers, politicians, and employers are realizing that campus leftism has gone too far. The question is whether it’s too late to stop it.

byRichard Hanania

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Palestinians living in different parts of Rafah collected their tents with the belongings they could take with them to migrate to safe areas in Gaza on May 08, 2024.

After Gaza

A Tablet roundtable about the challenges facing Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, and Washington, with Elliott Abrams, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Amiad Cohen, Michael Doran, Jon Greenwald, and Lee Smith

byTony Badran

Why We Worry

Is a certain level of anxiety part of my DNA as a Jewish mother? That’s one of many things I worry about.

byJamie Betesh Carter

Haunted by Weimar

byOr Bassok

Why We Worry

Is a certain level of anxiety part of my DNA as a Jewish mother? That’s one of many things I worry about.

byJamie Betesh Carter

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Haunted by Weimar

byOr Bassok

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Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real?

byRichard Hanania

The People Setting America on Fire

Saul Steinberg’s Beach House

byBill Tonelli

Irving Penn: Anxious American Photographer

byJonah Raskin

And the Prize for Photography Goes to ... Hamas?

byAlison Leigh Cowan

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Yizkor After the Black Sabbaths

byShlomo M. Brody

Sweating the Small Stuff

Israel’s Love Affair With India

bySameer Patil

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A Birthday Party in Israel

byJoan Nathan

Expanding the World of Jewish Food

byJamie Betesh Carter

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Obsessed With Lavashak?

byAnna Rahmanan

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Empathy Is Part of Our Jewish DNA

byElliot Cosgrove

Harry Truman’s Seder Message

byStuart Halpern

The Birth of a New Passover Breakfast Tradition

byQuinn Waller

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The Americans Fighting—and Dying—for Israel

byHillel Kuttler

Why We Worry

byJamie Betesh Carter

Those Who Escaped, and Those Who Remained

byGlenn Dynner

American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals

byIan KingsburyandJay P. Greene

Of Judaism, but Not in It

byAvi Shafran

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The Golden Age of Jewish Hockey

byArmin Rosen

Marty Glickman

byJeffrey S. Gurock

Qatar’s World Cup FIFA Bribe Documents Exposed

byArmin Rosen