Tablet Magazine

18 September 2024

15 Elul 5784

Jaime ‘Mujahid’ Fletcher, CEO and founder of IslamInSpanish, praying in Ramadan at the IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico in Houston

Growing Numbers of Latinos ‘Revert’ to Islam

‘The search for God is happening largely as a search for meaning without the pressure of family life or cultural traditions’

byMaggie Phillips

The Man Riding a Lion

A new narrative for the coronation of Sabbatai Zevi

byDavid Sclar

Educate Americans First

Skyrocketing foreign student enrollment at American universities is giving foreign governments power over what our universities teach while acculturating American students in third-world hatreds

byJay P. Greene

Collection: Kabbalah

Tablet looks at the many forms Kabbalah has taken, historically and currently, including its enigmatic leaders, its intellectual textual traditions, and the distinctive customs of its practitioners.

Explore this and other thematic, editor-curated deep dives into Tablet’s rich archives

Listen to Tablet

Sivan Says: Taking the Torah Personally

Ki Tavo

Happy futures on Parshat Ki Tavo

September 18, 2024

The Man Riding a Lion

A new narrative for the coronation of Sabbatai Zevi

byDavid Sclar

Educate Americans First

Skyrocketing foreign student enrollment at American universities is giving foreign governments power over what our universities teach while acculturating American students in third-world hatreds

byJay P. Greene

Newsletter

Subscribe to Tablet:

Success! You have subscribed to the Tablet newsletter! Check your inbox for a confirmation message.

Something went wrong. Please enter your email address again.

Only Disconnect

New novels by a Palestinian and an Israeli exhaust the literature of feminine dissociation. Only one of them will be stocked at your local bookstore.

byMarco Roth

A Different Spin on Shabbat

byFlora Tsapovsky

What is at stake in contemporary debates about gender is not just an individual’s right to his or her self-understanding, to a personal interpretation of the facts about their life—but rather the extent of an individual’s power to demand that others conceal or align their own interpretations.

—Blake Smith

A Different Spin on Shabbat

byFlora Tsapovsky

—Blake Smith