Sara Ivry
Sara Ivry is the host of Vox Tablet, Tablet Magazine's weekly podcast.
Aviation Blues
Airline pulls magazine after wrongheaded Holocaust fashion shoot
This Week In Foreigners’ Takes on Settlement Expansion
China against; N.Y. pol Dov Hikind in favor
Bad-Sex Fiction Finalists Announced
Philip Roth and Amos Oz make list of year’s worst literary sex scenes
Today in the Tyranny of the Ultra-Orthodox
Intel to hire shabbos goyim; a woman arrested at the Western Wall
Challah Gets Locavore Treatment, Too
In Brooklyn, where else?
Orthodox Rioters Take On Intel
Protestors ransack factory for operating on Shabbat
Being Jewish Made Kunstler a Radical
Legendary lawyer’s daughters speculate as their documentary opens
‘Harper’s’ Writer Finds U.S. Crypto-Jews
Finds descendents of Inquistion-era forced converts in New Mexico
Journos Fight Over Health Reform, Lieberman, Judaism
Jeffrey Goldberg, Dan Baum launch blog feud
The Jewish Fight Over Einstein
‘Atlantic’: His first U.S. trip caused a rift between Zionist leaders
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?
The Tenth Man
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
- 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




