About Us
Launched in 2009 as an online outlet about Jewish life and identity, Tablet quickly became “a must-read for all young politically and culturally engaged Jews” (New York Magazine). Within a few years, it grew into one of the most influential platforms for news and ideas—both Jewish and otherwise—on the web. Now, with multiple National Magazine nominations and awards, a stable of peerless writers and editors, and a global readership, Tablet is considered, in the words of Up in the Air author Walter Kirn, “the single best magazine in America.”
It is essential to realize that any group’s ethical, religious and cultural traditions are not fossils or historical curiosities, to be retained or discarded at a whim; they are precious possessions that may spell the difference between choosing life and death. Thus, all men and women have a moral obligation to understand and uphold the positive, life-sustaining values of their particular culture and to transmit them to those who come after them—as well as to respect the different values of their neighbors. There are lessons for survival, whether physical or moral, which only a knowledge of one’s past, one’s traditions and history, can teach. —Yehuda Bauer
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Publisher: Morton Landowne
Editor in Chief: Alana Newhouse
Deputy Editor: Ani Wilcenski
Managing Editor: Wayne Hoffman
Literary Editor: David Samuels
Executive Editor, Print: Lorin Stein
Operations Manager: Jordana LaRosa
Digital Editorial Director: Tony Badran
Senior Editor: Rina Raphael
Editor, The Scroll: Park MacDougald
Deputy Editor, The Scroll: Adam Lehrer
Senior Social Editor: Isaac de Castro
Editor-at-Large: Liel Liebovitz
Correspondent-at-Large: Armin Rosen
PRODUCTION
Creative Director: Matthew Fishbane
Magazine Design Director: Rob Hewitt
Chief Technology Officer: Noam Blum
Video Editor: Alan Shindelman
Copy Editors: Larry Greenberg, Jaime Brockway
BUSINESS
Chief Operating Officer: Sam Hacker
Head of Revenue Operations: Courtney Hazlett
Newsletter and Customer Experience Coordinator: Yael Brown
TABLET STUDIOS (PODCAST PRODUCTION)
Co-founder: Liel Leibovitz
Director of Production: Josh Kross
Deputy Podcast Editors: Quinn Waller, Esther Werdiger
Contributing writers: Tony Badran, Justine Bateman, Menachem Butler, Katherine Dee, Norman Doidge, Michael Doran, Frederick Kaufman, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Michael Lind, Edward Luttwak, Park MacDougald, Leandra Medine, David Mikics, B. Duncan Moench, Maggie Phillips, Lee Smith, Jeremy Sigler, Jeremy Stern, Blake Smith, Lee Smith, Izabella Tabarovsky, Michael Walzer, Jeff Weiss, Matthew Weiner.
This site was designed by the legendary team at Pentagram, led by Luke Hayman and Austin Maurer along with Laura McNeill, Shigeto Akiyama, Elyanna Blaser-Gould, and Ryan Smith. It was developed by Sanctuary Computer and is maintained by Big Human.
Tablet is a project of the not-for-profit Nextbook Inc., which also produced the Jewish Encounters book series, edited by Jonathan Rosen. Our archive holds all the articles and features that originally appeared on the website Nextbook.org.
Corrections Policy
Corrections are noted by asterisks at the location of the change. Clarifications appear at the end of the article.
Tablet magazine adheres to the journalistic policy of never deleting posts—even those for which apologies have been tendered or substantial corrections applied. Here is the New York Times description of the standard—even when a post is wrong, “we still do not believe that we should unpublish it and pretend it never existed”—which is doubly important for online-only sites, which don’t have paper or microfilm archives.
Donations
If you’d like to make a contribution to help support Tablet Magazine, you can do so by credit card here. If you’d like to donate via donor-advised fund, you can do so here.
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Nextbook’s tax ID number is 41-2116973. You can contact Samantha Hacker at [email protected] with any donation-related questions, including how to donate stock to Nextbook.
Partner With Us
Writing for Tablet
Tablet welcomes submissions from freelance writers. Please submit a full pitch—including a detailed description of what you’d like to write, a brief biography, links to previously published stories, and, if necessary, a short writing sample—to the appropriate section editor. Do not submit a completed piece. Successful pitches will display a working knowledge of Tablet magazine and the content it publishes. We do not accept freelance opinion or editorial (op-ed) writing. We are not currently accepting unsolicited fiction or poetry. If you submit a proposal for an op-ed, or an article that is op-ed writing, or a fiction manuscript, you will not receive a reply from us.
Pitches for News, Israel & the Middle East, and Science should go to Tony Badran, [email protected].
Pitches for Arts & Letters, History, and Sports should go to Jordana LaRosa, [email protected].
Advertising in Tablet
Tablet magazine offers a variety of advertising opportunities. Reach out to Courtney Hazlett at [email protected] to learn more.
