Allison Hoffman
Allison Hoffman is a senior writer for Tablet Magazine.
Shake Your Lulav at the Airport
But no Polaroid pictures at the checkpoint, thanks
New York, You Deserve Better
But Natalie Portman shines in new film
Israel, Hamas Reach Preliminary Deal on Shalit
Prisoners for video, as a first step
Whither Polanski
With silence from Switzerland, everyone else debates director’s arrest
Goldstone Presents Gaza Report in Geneva
Urges both sides to seek justice, for peace
Netanyahu’s Brief Homecoming
Visits 92nd Street Y, reminisces, leaves to catch plane
Shoes You Can Use
What to wear on Yom Kippur, when leather is banned
Netanyahu at U.N.: If They Recognize Us, We’ll Recognize Them
But meetings have resulted in little apparent progress
Gadhafi Proposes Establishment of ‘Isratine’
His Mideast peace plan, plus other ideas in a 90-minute address
Obama at U.N.: Negotiations Without Pre-Conditions
But what does he mean by a contiguous Palestinian state?
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
Sounding Off
Note to some of my fellow progressives: If we can’t argue about Israel without using anti-Semitic tropes, then the debate is lost before it even begins
The Dispossessed
Hugo Chávez is ramping up his assault on Venezuela’s upper class, and now a rare Jewish paradise is squarely in his sights. Can it be salvaged?
- Daphne Merkin chats with Joseph Cedar, the director of the Oscar-nominated FOOTNOTE http://t.co/UWJjpoWl
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Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
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St. Leonard’s Passion
Leonard Cohen releases his 12th album, Old Ideas. The troubadour and poet hasn’t always been popular, but he is always profound.by Liel LeibovitzFace Off
The Israeli leadership is at war with itself over Iran: In one corner, Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. In the other, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan.by Yossi MelmanWriting Footnote
Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated filmby Daphne MerkinSentimental Journey
In the new collected stories of Nathan Englander, and in his revised Haggadah, Jews cling tenuously to the easily broken chains of traditionby Adam KirschPregnant Pause
Pregnancies are fertile ground for superstition, especially for those who assume their traditions and lucky charms are based in Jewish lawby Allison Hoffman




