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Strike on Iran

19 June 2025

23 Sivan 5785

Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, on Sunday, June 15, 2025

A conversation with leading American physicist and nuclear weapons expert David Albright about what Israel’s campaign has achieved so far and whether U.S. military assistance is needed

byArmin Rosen

I Didn’t Pack for This

A Tablet editor gets an accidental firsthand education in modern Middle Eastern politics

byAni Wilcenski

I realized that I was screwed two days ago at 3 a.m. I’d just drifted off to sleep after a night out with friends in Tel Aviv when my phone and the world outside erupted into a cacophony of disturbing-sounding alarms. Initially, it seemed like yet another rocket from the Houthis, who had been infuriating everyone nightly by triggering sirens around 2 a.m., but a light scan of explosion videos from Tehran on X and a series of “extreme alerts” from Israel’s Home Front Command made it clear that the days that lay ahead would be nothing short of historic....

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Protesters confront California National Guard soldiers and police outside of a federal building as protests continue in Los Angeles following days of clashes, June 9, 2025

The Fire This Time

Democratic operatives are using orchestrated street violence to fracture the military leadership and destabilize the Trump presidency—again

byLee Smith

Tablet Magazine Live: Operation Rising Lion

A special update on Israel’s strike on Iran

byTablet Magazine

The Fire This Time

Democratic operatives are using orchestrated street violence to fracture the military leadership and destabilize the Trump presidency—again

byLee Smith

Tablet Magazine Live: Operation Rising Lion

A special update on Israel’s strike on Iran

byTablet Magazine

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From the June print edition

How the Internet Became an ATM

From seed oils to soda lobbying: inside the strange, lucrative world of influence for hire

byIsaac Simpson

The client was a product in the food space, MAHA/Erewhon-coded, in the category of seed oil free tallows and coconut butters. My firm was courting two influencers, both the sort of satirical accounts that embody both the critic and the creator of the subject in question. One a genuinely funny and glamorous TikTok ingenue known for her short takes on bougie white women: Calabasas Mom, Matcha Ho After Pilates Class, Girl Who’s Obsessed With Pisces Season … that sort of thing. The other a less funny 20-something guy who mocked the ultrawealthy—ski chalets at Aspen, superyachts, Bugattis, etc.—while also somehow having unlimited access to the things he mocked. They were the White Lotus of TikTok influencers....

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From the June print edition

Why Hollywood Needs God

And why God needs Hollywood

byJustine Bateman

From the June print edition

Unnatural Immunity

byArmin Rosen

From the June print edition

Why Hollywood Needs God

And why God needs Hollywood

byJustine Bateman

From the June print edition

Unnatural Immunity

byArmin Rosen

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The Anti-Israel Right Joins the Pro-Iran Left

MAGA influencers replace the mainstream media as vehicles for traditional information campaigns targeting Israel—and Trump

byLee Smith

Chava and Zenia

The friendship of two young writers from Lodz who survived the Holocaust and achieved very different kinds of literary fame

byGoldie Morgentaler

My mother’s best friend when she was growing up in Poland in the 1930s was Zenia Marcinkowska. Zenia would grow up to be an acclaimed novelist in Sweden under the name Zenia Larsson. My mother would also become a writer, the Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb. So this is the story of the correspondence between two writers, both women, both born in Lodz, Poland, both survivors of the Holocaust. Neither writer is particularly well-known today, because they wrote in languages that have relatively few readers, Zenia in Swedish, Chava in Yiddish.

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