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Tablet Magazine’s Best of 2012

A look at some of our best stories from the year

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December 27, 2012
Ravi Joshi(Tablet Magazine)
Ravi Joshi(Tablet Magazine)

With the last weekend of 2012 coming up, Tablet has compiled a list of some of our best stories from the year to help you get ready for 2013. This is by no means a definitive list, but a good of mix of things we’re proud of from our various sections.

• Our new fiction series has taken off with writers like Aimee Bender & Josh Cohen contributing their original content.

• Thomas Beller wrote an eloquent tribute in honor of the work of the poet and musician David Berman.

• Dara Horn scribed our very first Kindle Single about the forgotten World War II rescuer Varian Fry.

• Who could forget Michael Moynihan’s piece on Jonah Lehrer’s deceptions?

• Earlier this month, Menachem Kaiser had this story about a pedophile ring in Jerusalem that may not be real.

• J Hoberman had a series of great reviews for us: Among them, a look at Todd Solondz’s film Dark Horse, a story about the Russian-born filmmaker Julia Loktev, and a smart take on Joseph Cedar’s Israeli tragedy Footnote.

• Joan Nathan showed us how to make the ultimate latke.

• Matthew Fishbane reported on Hugo Chavez and the flight of Venezuelan Jews.

• Danielle Leshaw had a dispatch about how Israeli children are taught about the occupation of the West Bank.

• Nona Willis-Aronowitz took a look at the feminist and political legacy of Shulamith Firestone who died in 2012.

• Etgar Keret had a great story about his new house–the narrowest in the world–and his family’s history in Poland:

• Raffi Leicht wrote movingly about how the Jewish holidays helped him battle cancer.

• Roni Handler had these thoughts on same-sex marriage, religion, and family tension.

• Evelyn Krieger wrote on religious observance and letting go at her daughter’s wedding.

• Aaron Wolfe chronicled his search into his grandfather’s history in the Holocaust.

• Avital Chizhik gave us this lovely essay on Orthodoxy and rules of modesty.

• Jake Kohlman shares his tale of how he discovered his Jewish faith while serving the U.S. Army.

Enjoy them again or for the first time!

These articles are not currently attributed to anyone. We’re working on it!