About Us
Tablet is a Jewish magazine about the world.
We produce:
Every weekday AM: 3-5 substantial stories on politics, global affairs, Jewish communal life, religion and religious communities (all of them), food, science, sex and relationships, and more. You can receive these in your inbox by signing up here. (If you’re more of a window-shopping type, explore our sections in the left-hand menu.)
Every weekday PM: The Scroll, an early-evening digest of the only news worth knowing about. (Motto: “We read the internet all day so you don’t have to.”) Sign up here.
Plus:
- Podcasts
- Books
- Merchandise
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 on the web, an address for reporting and arguments regularly cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, The New Yorker, and others. 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
Executive Editor: Wayne Hoffman
Deputy Editor: Jeremy Stern
Editor at Large: Liel Leibovitz
Literary Editor: David Samuels
Deputy Literary Editor: Park MacDougald
Critic at Large: Marco Roth
Senior Editor, News and The Scroll: Jacob Siegel
Deputy News Editor: David Sugarman
Senior Writers: Sean Cooper, Armin Rosen
Columnist: Maggie Phillips
Senior Editor: Mark Oppenheimer
Associate Editors: Menachem Butler (Scholarship), Alyssa Quint, Clayton Fox (The Scroll)
Editorial Assistant: Jamie Betesh Carter
PRODUCTION
Creative Director: Matthew Fishbane
Chief Technology Officer: Noam Blum
Art Director: Esther Werdiger
Copy Editor: Larry Greenberg
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT
Chief Strategy Officer, Audience & Community Engagement: Stephanie Butnick
Chief Administrative Officer, Development & Finance: Samantha Hacker
Senior Editor and Director, Community Membership: Gabriel Sanders
Audience Editor: Ani Wilcenski
Assistant Audience Director: Isaac de Castro
Operations and Administrative Assistant: Jordana La Rosa
TABLET STUDIOS (PODCAST PRODUCTION)
Co-founder: Stephanie Butnick
Co-founder and Editorial Director: Liel Leibovitz
General Manager: Tanya Singer
Showrunner: Courtney Hazlett
Director of Production: Josh Kross
Director of Communal Engagement: Darone Ruskay
Editor at Large: Mark Oppenheimer
Producers: Robert Scaramuccia, Quinn Waller
Associate Producer: Elie Bleier
Contributing writers: Tony Badran (Levant analyst), Jonathan Boyarin, Francis Brent, Menachem Butler, Vladislav Davidzon, Katherine Dee, Norman Doidge, Jules Feiffer, Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman, Matti Friedman, Kinky Friedman, Alex Gutentag, J. Hoberman, Dara Horn, Paula Jacobs, Dana Kessler, Leah Koenig, Bernard-Henri Levy (European correspondent), Howard Jacobson, K.C. Johnson, Rokhl Kafrissen, James Kirchick, Michael Lind, Edward Luttwak, David Mikics, B. Duncan Moench, Joan Nathan, David Patrikarakos, Maggie MacFarland Phillips, Anne Roiphe, Kat Rosenfield, Dan D. Y. Shapira, Samantha Shokin, Jeremy Sigler, Blake Smith, Lee Smith, Izabella Tabarovsky, Flora Tsapovsky, Sara Toth Stub, Michael Walzer, Jeff Weiss, Jenna Weissman Joselit, Wesley Yang
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.
Print Magazine
Tablet’s quarterly print magazine is on hiatus. We hope to have more information for you soon.
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
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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 and Science should go to David Sugarman, [email protected].
Pitches for Arts & Letters, History, Israel & the Middle East, and Sports should go to Park MacDougald, [email protected].
Pitches for Community, Belief, Food and Holidays should go to Wayne Hoffman, [email protected].
Advertising in Tablet
Tablet Magazine sells advertising on Tabletmag.com and in its daily email newsletter, and we also offer an occasional dedicated eblast to our newsletter list. Inquiries should be sent to [email protected].
