Tablet Magazine

23 January 2025

23 Tevet 5785

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Dementia Gave Me a Different View of the Torah

Since my diagnosis with mild cognitive impairment, I’ve started finding new meaning in the words of each week’s parsha

The Torah expects our struggle against Amalek will last ‘from generation to generation’ because it anticipates a perennial need to refute new attempts at violent usurpation by one or another competing ideology plucked from the Abrahamic family tree.

—Jeremy England

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The Romance of Belonging Nowhere

André Aciman’s new coming-of-age memoir picks up where ‘Out of Egypt’ left off

Jules Feiffer (1929–2025)

Tablet mourns the death of the great artist, author, and, from 2018 to 2020, contributor to our pages.

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Trump In—Halevi Out

Mike and Gadi discuss the end of IDF Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi’s tenure, and the beginning of President Trump’s term

January 23, 2025

Saving Western Values: Rotherham and the Perils of Multiculturalism, With Melanie Phillips

The journalist and commentator discusses the dangers of indiscriminate multiculturalism in light of the resurfacing of a decade-old scandal

January 23, 2025

How to Be a Jew

How to Be a Jew … and a Pragmatist

Rabbi Marc Katz joins us to discuss his new book, ‘Yochanan’s Gamble: Judaism’s Pragmatic Approach to Life‘

January 22, 2025

All good

January 23, 2025

Jules Feiffer (1929–2025)

Tablet mourns the death of the great artist, author, and, from 2018 to 2020, contributor to our pages.

Listen to Tablet

Trump In—Halevi Out

Mike and Gadi discuss the end of IDF Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi’s tenure, and the beginning of President Trump’s term

January 23, 2025

Saving Western Values: Rotherham and the Perils of Multiculturalism, With Melanie Phillips

The journalist and commentator discusses the dangers of indiscriminate multiculturalism in light of the resurfacing of a decade-old scandal

January 23, 2025

How to Be a Jew

How to Be a Jew … and a Pragmatist

Rabbi Marc Katz joins us to discuss his new book, ‘Yochanan’s Gamble: Judaism’s Pragmatic Approach to Life‘

January 22, 2025

All good

January 23, 2025

The Torah expects our struggle against Amalek will last ‘from generation to generation’ because it anticipates a perennial need to refute new attempts at violent usurpation by one or another competing ideology plucked from the Abrahamic family tree.

—Jeremy England

Arts & Letters section icon

The Romance of Belonging Nowhere

André Aciman’s new coming-of-age memoir picks up where ‘Out of Egypt’ left off

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