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A new read on Jewish life

09 February 2023

18 Shevat 5783

Billionaire and Biden fixer David Rubenstein appears to sit at the center of the Biden classified document cover-up

A major Biden ally is also a top donor to the National Archives. Could private equity billionaire David Rubenstein hold the key to the White House documents scandal?

byLee Smith

‘Israel must continue to adhere to the values of the empire’s ruling faction, as defined on any given day, or face consequences’

Hezekiah’s Mistake

As Netanyahu tries to manage relations with a fracturing American empire, he would do well to read Isaiah

byTony Badran

The author with her father-in-law on her wedding day

Jewish Father-in-Law’s Day

As we prepare to read Parshat Yitro, a convert to Judaism honors the advice and love of her father-in-law with a special recipe

byMarcia Friedman

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Ep. 348: Author Gabrielle Zevin on ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ and a spirited discussion about Netflix’s ‘You People’

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Hezekiah’s Mistake

As Netanyahu tries to manage relations with a fracturing American empire, he would do well to read Isaiah

byTony Badran

Jewish Father-in-Law’s Day

As we prepare to read Parshat Yitro, a convert to Judaism honors the advice and love of her father-in-law with a special recipe

byMarcia Friedman

‘I text all of my friends who have left the city, and they all say the same thing: You’ll soon be relieved’

FICTION

New York Is Over

Tablet Original Fiction

byHannah Lillith Assadi

Intersectional Antisemitism in America

The internet has brought jihadists, neo-Nazis, and anarchists together through their shared hatred of Jews

byLorenzo Vidino

A German Leopard 2A6 tank on maneuvers in Augustdorf, February 2023

Can America Keep Failing Upward?

American bumbling has paradoxically promoted the long-standing U.S. policy goals of greater German and Japanese military engagement. But we should be careful what we wish for.

byJeremy Stern

Allied Forces

As evangelical support for Israel—once rock solid—erodes, one Christian group is promoting a different kind of allyship by showing up when antisemitic attacks occur

byMaggie Phillips

‘You People,’ hallelujah, is just the major motion picture that American Jews deserve.

—Liel Leibovitz

‘You People’ is not the feel-good, star-crossed love story it advertises itself as, but a hatchet job on the Jewish people.

—Malina Saval

Can America Keep Failing Upward?

American bumbling has paradoxically promoted the long-standing U.S. policy goals of greater German and Japanese military engagement. But we should be careful what we wish for.

byJeremy Stern

Allied Forces

As evangelical support for Israel—once rock solid—erodes, one Christian group is promoting a different kind of allyship by showing up when antisemitic attacks occur

byMaggie Phillips

‘You People,’ hallelujah, is just the major motion picture that American Jews deserve.

—Liel Leibovitz

‘You People’ is not the feel-good, star-crossed love story it advertises itself as, but a hatchet job on the Jewish people.

—Malina Saval

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From The Scroll

A landmark national security trial in Hong Kong is underway for the 16 pro-democracy activists who’ve spent the past two years in prison after pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit subversion. The defendants were a part of a group of 47 activists arrested during a raid in January 2021 after they organized an unsanctioned primary to select candidates to challenge a city assembly election they saw as undemocratic and deferential to Beijing. Chinese officials have denied interfering in the city’s political process, even after imposing a controversial national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 that’s been criticized as a tool to chill dissent.

Read more about it in The Scroll, Tablet’s daily afternoon news digest.

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On Putin and Babyn Yar

An exclusive Tablet interview with Ilya Khrzhanovsky

byVladislav Davidzon

The Outback’s Jewish Museum

Once it was a synagogue serving Jewish immigrants in a remote Australian mining town. Today, it’s a reminder of a history many have forgotten.

byNomi Kaltmann

As the field of queer studies has become more influential, some of its proponents have pushed the idea that opposing Israel’s existence is a natural position for gays and lesbians to adopt.

The Crease in My Kippah

How a truly terrible Hebrew school student grew up to become an Orthodox rabbi

byHayim Leiter