Julie Subrin
Julie Subrin is Tablet Magazine's executive producer for audio.
Today’s Sorry
Swayze, we hardly knew ye
News from Spain
Good for bike racers, bad for medieval souls
Spielberg’s Path
From directing sharks to donating a Torah
Clothes Make the Woman
A peek inside London fashion with couturier David Sassoon
Hero Worship
Ed Zwick and Leon Wieseltier on fighters, cab drivers, creepy forests, and the movie Defiance
TV Guide
Thirty years later, a look at how an American miniseries altered German perspectives on the Holocaust
Chosen People
Spending Shabbat with one of the biggest African American congregations in the country
You Are What You Wear
In her new novel, Linda Grant tackles questions of identity, morality, and fashion
Passion Songs
Yasmin Levy brings fire to traditional Ladino music
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




