Tablet Magazine

23 May 2024

15 Iyar 5784

Campus cleanup at UCLA in Westwood, California, on May 2, 2024

The End of a School Year Like No Other

College students reflect on a year of fear, isolation, and poop tents

byThe Editors

Smoke plumes from an explosion billow in the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel's southern border with the Palestinian territory on May 21, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas

Israel Is Succeeding in Gaza

Western analysts think otherwise, because they are seeing Israel’s war through the lens of America’s own failed counterinsurgency doctrines

byAndrew Fox

A protester uses a scope on top of a barricade to look for police approaching the Capitol Hill autonomous zone (CHAZ) in Seattle on June 11, 2020

What Nellie Saw

Good progressives are tossing the heady days of wine and wokeness down the memory hole. Lucky for us, there was a witness

byDavid Mikics

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Summer Breaks

Talking to Jewish students at the end of a long semester; plus how surfing came to Israel, teaching Torah in prison, and more

May 23, 2024

TONIGHT: The End of a School Year Like No Other

8 p.m. EDT on Zoom: Ani Wilcenski sits down with college students to talk about their experiences, and what it means for the future.

Israel Is Succeeding in Gaza

Western analysts think otherwise, because they are seeing Israel’s war through the lens of America’s own failed counterinsurgency doctrines

byAndrew Fox

What Nellie Saw

Good progressives are tossing the heady days of wine and wokeness down the memory hole. Lucky for us, there was a witness

byDavid Mikics

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Replaying the Survival Game

A new graphic novel by game designer Jordan Mechner layers one man’s search for personal connection and redemption against the background of his father’s childhood as a Jewish refugee in Vichy France and his grandfather’s survival of the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

byRaz Greenberg