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Today in Tablet Magazine, the weekly Vox Tablet podcast features an interview with former BBC journalist Michael Goldfarb on his new book, Emancipation. Marjorie Ingall devotes her weekly column on parenting to tattling: drawing the line between good and bad telling, and educating children on the distinction. Josh Lambert offers up his weekly look at ...

The French Revolution is not generally considered a key moment in Jewish history.  But in his new book, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance, Michael Goldfarb argues that the period that began with the Revolution and Jews’ consequent enfranchisement and ended nearly two centuries later with the Holocaust ...

In only a couple years, J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” political organization, has made waves—and a few enemies, particularly among conservatives—by challenging the assumption that American Jews’ views on Israel are best represented by center-right AIPAC. We knew them to be strong-willed, even brazen. But we didn’t know they could be funny, too! One Tablet ...

In the funniest scene from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything Is Illuminated, several Ukrainians attempt to understand what exactly is wrong with an American Jew named Jonathan Safran Foer who refuses to eat any meat. Almost a decade later, Foer has finally explained himself, in Eating Animals (Little, Brown, November), a nonfiction cri de coeur ...

Early this morning, progressive Israel lobby J Street announced it was canceling a session on protest poetry scheduled for its big debut conference, which kicks off next Sunday in Washington, because it didn’t approve of the “use and abuse of Holocaust imagery” and other potentially offensive material by the three featured poets—Kevin Coval, Josh Healey, ...