Q&A with Nick Valensi
The greatest living Jewish rock guitarist speaks about the Strokes, CRX, his North African Jewish father, his French mother, the import-export business, and getting his first Guns N’ Roses tape from Sam Goody
A Last Conversation with Aharon Appelfeld
The great Jewish writer, who died this week at 85, on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new
Rick Rubin’s Def Jam Confidential
How the music guru landed on the logo that launched it all
Free Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed Bio
The Times concedes one to the outrage trolls, and history weeps
Q&A: BHL
The Nouveau Philosophe on ‘The Genius of Judaism,’ the lessons of Jonah, the ‘human excellence’ of cities, and the futility of the fight against global anti-Semitism
Q&A with Susan Faludi
For her latest book, the ‘haunting, urgent,’ In the Darkroom, the reporter goes digging to find her father, a Holocaust survivor who became transgender—and unearths a meditation on American and American-Jewish identity in what turns out to be the Age of Trump
One Last Interview
Three weeks ago, Shimon Peres sat for what he intended to be a Rosh Hashanah-timed discussion about the state of the world. It was also his final one.
Rhythm and Jews
Mike Stoller, of the powerhouse songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, talks about cultural appropriation, writing for Elvis, and the idea of the ‘soundtrack of our lives’
A Fourth of July Story
Independence Day is doubly special for the legendary refusenik Natan Sharansky and his family. He sits down for a wide-ranging interview about his wife Avital, love among Jewish people, and the promise of freedom.
The Middle East Has Fractured. Is Europe Next? A Tablet Roundtable Discussion.
Elliott Abrams, Paul Berman, Robert Blecher, Hanin Ghaddar, Edward Luttwak, Lee Smith, Nathan Thrall, and Robert F. Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and the Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of the West
A. J. Weberman
A conversation with the noted garbologist about Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Meir Kahane, being a drug dealer, and what’s wrong with NY today
Q&A: ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Talks LA Jews and the American Dream
And things Jews overhear while passing for white people
Iddo, the Smartest Netanyahu Brother
As his new play ‘A Happy End’ premieres in New York, the playwright reflects on the decisions that shape lives
The Conscience of Poland: A Q&A With Adam Michnik
A conversation with the former dissident and public intellectual, about the ‘Polish mentality,’ anti-Semitism, and ‘wearing Jewish glasses’
In Memory of Ziad Abu Ein
In Arafat’s shadow, he died holding an olive branch, after a long struggle for control of the Palestinian national movement
Do Jews Carry Trauma in Our Genes? A Conversation With Rachel Yehuda.
The innovative neuroscientist discusses how the Holocaust, famine, and other catastrophic experiences can affect our DNA
Q&A: Gen. Uzi Dayan
Israel’s lead security negotiator talks about the end of Oslo and the future of annexation
Q&A With Yaakov Amidror, Former Head of the Israeli National Security Council
Netanyahu’s ex-national security adviser says Abbas has a choice between Israeli troops on the Jordan River—or no state at all
How Osama Bin Laden Outsmarted the U.S. and Got What He Wanted
The point of Sept. 11 wasn’t to terrorize the West. It was to get the U.S. out of the Muslim world—and it worked.
Q&A With Abe Foxman, Head of the Anti-Defamation League
The crusader against anti-Semitism on why 2013 was bad for the Jews—and why fixing the world starts with fixing ourselves
Q&A With Art Spiegelman, Creator of ‘Maus’
The influential artist talks about his Jewish Museum retrospective, ‘Mad’ magazine, and how the Shoah trumps art all of the time
Q&A: Benjamin Ginsberg, the Author of ‘How the Jews Defeated Hitler’
His thoughts on Jewish strength, Jewish weakness, and the secret history of the Judeo-Episcopate in America
Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel (1920s)
In Babel’s dark masterpiece, the Soviets fight the Poles and everybody hates the Jews
Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964)
The master’s most autobiographical, and therefore most Jewish, book
The Iron Tracks, Aharon Appelfeld (1998)
The greatest living Jewish writer tackles vengeance
The Ghetto Fights, Marek Edelman (1945)
A book that should be read at Yizkor
Ringelblum Archive (1944)
A time capsule from the Warsaw ghetto
