Allison Hoffman

Allison Hoffman is a senior writer for Tablet Magazine.

Your Oscar Cheat Sheet

Whom to root for Sunday night

Balkany Faces Sentencing This Morning

Corrupt rabbi has asked for two years; prosecutors want nine

The Hair You Wear May Be Sassoon’s

New documentary celebrates the Jewish stylist icon

The Gentleman From Virginia

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, hails not from the urban melting pot but from a Southern, explicitly Christian America

Cantor Ascends to Majority Leader

Highest-ever-ranking Jewish legislator has rough first day

Damascus Gate

Who told honcho Malcolm Hoenlein to go to Syria?

New Ambassador To Return to Old Country

Eisen, son of Czech Jew, is appointed

The Doctor Is In

Ben Shenkman is Feinberg in ‘Blue Valentine’

Spooltide Cheer

The end-of-year movie rush is on, and it’s rich in films of Jewish interest, including the Coen Brothers’ latest, True Grit. Tablet Magazine offers its top 10.

Tribal Allegiance

A Brooklyn rabbi thought he could swindle hedge-fund king Steven Cohen by playing on his Judaism. It was a bad bet.