Tablet Magazine

16 January 2025

16 Tevet 5785

The Road From ‘Cheers’ to Church

How TV writer and political satirist Rob Long found his way back to Episcopalianism

byMaggie Phillips

Finding Faith After a Cancer Diagnosis

I stopped talking to God during my pregnancy when I found out I had multiple myeloma. The Book of Job helped renew my connection.

byTiana Koppel

Third Time’s a Charm

A star physicist teaches us how to read the Torah, book by book. The second installment: Exodus.

byJeremy England

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Rootless

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

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Take One

Sanhedrin 30

The transparency of judgment

January 16, 2025

Finding Faith After a Cancer Diagnosis

I stopped talking to God during my pregnancy when I found out I had multiple myeloma. The Book of Job helped renew my connection.

byTiana Koppel

Third Time’s a Charm

A star physicist teaches us how to read the Torah, book by book. The second installment: Exodus.

byJeremy England

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The Deep State Strikes Back!

A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC, sources say

byLee Smith

Jewish Food Influencers Grapple With Politics in the Kitchen

S.Y. Agnon’s Secret Rabbi

How did a near-anonymous Torah scholar become the ‘mentor and teacher’—and in some senses the co-author—of the writer S.Y. Agnon? And why did Agnon omit his name from the title page of ‘Days of Awe’?

byAviad Hacohen

Andy, at right, and Renay at B&B Lanes bowling alley, circa 1984

Southern Exposure

Andy Corren went viral with his outrageous obituary for his mother in 2021. Now he tells the whole story in his new memoir, ‘Dirtbag Queen.’

byKaren Iris Tucker

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Israel Update

The Hostage Deal: Is Trump Endorsing Biden’s Policy?

Mike and Gadi discuss Israel’s uneasy deal, MAGA isolationism, Knesset turmoil, and a Supreme Court scandal—plus, why Mike’s lower expectations keep him less worried than Gadi

January 15, 2025

How to Be a Jew

UPDATED: How to Be a Jew … in Los Angeles Right Now

An updated version of our dispatch from Los Angeles: As wildfires sweep America’s second-largest city, Los Angeles-based Rabbi Beau Shapiro joins us to discuss how to deal with such tremendous loss and support those in need

January 15, 2025

Sivan Says: Taking the Torah Personally

Shemot

This week’s parsha asks the question, what’s in a name?

January 15, 2025

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