Jesse Oxfeld
Jesse Oxfeld is Tablet Magazine’s executive editor.
Madoff Aide DiPascali Pleads Guilty, Goes to Jail
A shonde fur di Yidn?
A Milkman in Winter
After 42 years, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Topol is still stuck in Anatevka
Chabad Wants Honor for High-Level Nazi
Intelligence chief saved the rebbe
Natalie Portman, Hasid
Trailer for ‘New York, I Love You’ sure to thrill Jewish boys everywhere
Andrew Sullivan Explains His Zionism
He’s in it for the guys
Tom Friedman Has Seen the Great Arabic Hope
And, believe it or not, it’s the Palestinian Authority
Online High-Holiday Services
Boon for slackers, shut-ins
Jewish Crime Week Continues!
With a corporate scam artist in New York
A Guss by Any Other Name
Lower East Side picklery to lose name, too
Send Her Your Tired and Poor Votes
Vote for Lazarus in silly Jewish Hall of Fame contest
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




