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Move Over, Matzo Balls. Here Come Kreplach, the Metaphysical Dumplings.

On Hoshana Rabbah, as the High Holidays’ period of judgment comes to a conclusion, give your chicken soup a taste of something meaningful

By Carol Ungar · October 1, 2015
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Observance

Finding Faith in Sukkot

After reading Ecclesiastes, I realized Sukkot is the perfect holiday for a spiritual skeptic like me

By Adam Rosen · October 3, 2017
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Personal History

Sukkot and the Single Woman: A Holiday of Thankfulness and Self-Invention

I never felt comfortable in my Orthodox neighborhood on Sukkot until I made a sukkah of my own—from the most unlikely materials

By Ruchama King Feuerman · September 16, 2013

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All Your Sukkot Needs

From sukkah building and sukkah eating to religious observance, here’s a handy guide to Tablet’s best Sukkot reads

By The Scroll · September 21, 2018
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Brexit is Britain’s West Bank

Like the West Bank in Israeli politics, Brexit presents the British with a hopeless dilemma

By Shany Mor · September 21, 2018
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The Egyptian ‘Angel’ Who Spied for Israel

A new film tries to fill in the blanks in the secret life of Ashraf Marwan, who spied for Israel in the lead-up to the Yom Kippur War

By Elazar Abrahams · September 21, 2018
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Haim Be’er’s Language of the ‘Jewish Bookshelf’

Appearing in English for the first time, a vignette from Haim Be’er with an introduction by the translator

By Jeffrey Saks · September 21, 2018
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A Song of the Vilna Ghetto

September 23 will mark 75 years since the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. This is the story of how one of the era’s most famous Jewish songs was written in the ghetto by an 11-year-old boy

By Aviad Te’eni · September 21, 2018

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Notebook

As an Israeli Hero Dies Saving a Stranger’s Life, Five Questions on Moral Clarity

What to make of Ari Fuld’s murder?

By Liel Leibovitz · September 21, 2018
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Observance

My Second Bat Mitzvah

I’m not afraid of the bullies anymore

By Roseanne Benjamin · September 20, 2018
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Food

The Trouble With Tsimmes—and How to Fix It

This stew of root vegetables and dried fruit is a staple of Ashkenazi cooking, but it doesn’t have to be the bland, gloppy mess we’ve come to know

By Leah Koenig · September 20, 2018
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The Etrog

By S. Y. Agnon

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Middle East

Between War and Peace: An Interview With Senior Hamas Leader Husam Badran

Current Hamas Political Bureau Member and former military commander, convicted of directing terror bombings that killed over 120 Israelis, including the bombings of the Sbrarro Pizza in Jerusalem and the Dolphinarium Discotheque in Tel Aviv, speaks to Tablet about the ongoing Gaza cease-fire negotiations with Israel

By Elhanan Miller · September 17, 2018
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Hezbollah Ritually Humiliates the UN

As the Security Council passes another empty resolution, the Lebanese terror organization strips Peacekeepers of their gear and sets fire to vehicles

By Tony Badran · September 16, 2018
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Israel’s Failure to Support Syrian Rebels

A dispatch from the Golan Heights, where the Jewish state’s confounding political and military policy plays out in the lives of Syrians looking for hope of any kind

By Elhanan Miller · September 11, 2018

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Film

The Riches of Jewish Film in Venice

At the 75th festival—with new works by the Coen brothers, Julian Schnabel, Errol Morris, Orson Welles, and ‘Son of Saul’ director László Nemes, and period dramas starring Rachel Weisz and Jeff Goldblum, as well as Israeli films—‘the horror of the world lies behind infinitely pretty things’

By A.J. Goldmann · September 21, 2018
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Fiction and Essays

Reb Aryeh’s Etrog

For Sukkot, a story by Israeli novelist Haim Be’er, in a first English translation

By Haim Be’er · September 21, 2018
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Book Reviews

‘My Struggle’ and ‘Mein Kampf’

Hitler and the legacy of Nazism at the core of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s memoir

By Dan Grossman · September 20, 2018