Rokhl’s Golden City: A different take on Walt Whitman

In ancient times, a genetic mutation helped ensure Jewish survival. Today, it might be making you sick.

This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ tackles the eternal problem of theodicy: If God is both good and omnipotent, why is there evil in the world?

Tablet’s Vladislav Davidzon gained special access to Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s enigmatic new leader who once played the president on TV. Here, Davidzon shares his impressions of Zelensky and his predictions for Ukraine’s political future.

A doctor spends Passover in East Africa, surrounded by disease and suffering, and reflects on the tenuous balance between order and disorder, exodus and return

A new bill in Quebec prohibiting some public displays of religious symbols would bar observant Jews from serving in courts and classrooms

Victor Hugo and the ideals of progress

Are the philosophical roots of contemporary left-wing denunciations of Israel to be found in a radical, twisted 1970s argument about the place of Jews in Western culture?

A dispatch from frozen Harbin, where Jews once flourished—and melted away