Judith Miller

Judith Miller, Tablet Magazine’s theater critic, is the author of the memoirThe Story: A Reporter’s Journey.

Mr. Jimmy
A tribute to my brother Jimmy Miller, who produced the Rolling Stones’ greatest records and heard the music in everything around him, on the 25th anniversary of his death
byJudith Miller
Greedy Jews!
New York’s current hot ticket, ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ is an epic parable of capitalism. But can a Jewish immigrant family embody the American dream?
byJudith Miller
‘The Band’s Visit’ Is Terrific Musical Theater. Go See It.
The magical Broadway adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film sets aside politics in favor of humanity
byJudith Miller
A Killing in Amman Portends More Animosity Between Israel and Jordan
What began as a delivery of bedroom furniture may end up as a major diplomatic crisis
byJudith Miller
Is Israel Catching Up Too Late to a Major Strategic Threat from Iran?
The Jewish state confronts the possibility of a new front—or two—in its ongoing conflict with a hostile regional power on the rise
byJudith Miller
Impassioned ‘Homeland’ Creators Gut Their Show to Avoid Trolling; Ratings Drop
In the drama’s new alternate PC universe, Hillary is President, domestic terrorism doesn’t exist, Israel is the bad guy in the Middle East, and Carrie Mathison is a mom who defends a teenager who supports ISIS on Facebook
byJudith Miller
‘To the End of the Land’ Is Israel’s Hottest Ticket
A new Habima theater adaptation of David Grossman’s award-winning but deeply pessimistic novel puts the Jewish State on a treadmill to outrun history
byJudith Miller
Moshe Ya’alon Says He’ll Challenge Netanyahu in Next Election
In Herzliyah, the former Israeli defense minister announced he’d run for prime minister against his former boss, whose leadership has ‘ceased to function’
byJudith Miller
The Ballad of Huma and Bad, Bad Anthony Weiner
‘Weiner’ is an intimate, unflinching documentary about the former congressman’s doomed 2013 mayoral run, and the people who stuck with him through his Trumpian circus act
byJudith Miller
Obama’s Drone Wars Get Their Hollywood Close-Up in ‘Eye in the Sky’
Helen Mirren stars in the ‘flawed but riveting’ portrayal of the wrenching dilemmas of the military’s new intimate killing
byJudith Miller
‘Spotlight’ Shows a Community at Its Worst, and Journalism at Its Best
The vivid new feature film starring Michael Keaton dramatizes the Boston Globe’s real-life uncovering of sex abuse by Catholic priests
byJudith Miller
Was the ‘Klinghoffer’ Premiere an ‘Operatic Kristallnacht’?
Dispatch from the scene at—and in—Lincoln Center Monday night
byJudith Miller
Errol Morris Talked to Rumsfeld for 33 Hours. All He Got Was ‘The Unknown Known.’
The new documentary fails to elicit answers to the most important, and still unresolved, questions about the Iraq War
byJudith Miller
‘Omar’ and ‘Bethlehem’ Tell the Same Story—But Only One Was Nominated for an Oscar
The better, more real, and more compelling of the two Israeli-Palestinian intelligence films opens this week in the U.S.
byJudith Miller
Holocaust-ed: How the Defining Event of American Jewish Identity Plays Off-Broadway
Two fine one-act plays, ‘Bad Jews’ and ‘The Model Apartment,’ tackle the Shoah with unflinching dark humor
byJudith Miller
On the Outrageous AP Seizures
We can all agree: The Obama Administration’s assaults on the First Amendment are abhorrent—and must stop
byJudith Miller
Terror and the Surveillance State on Film
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and the Israeli documentary ‘The Gatekeepers’ are up for Academy Awards. Only one should win.
byJudith Miller
The Assimilation Stage
My Name Is Asher Lev and Disgraced bring to New York stages Jews and Muslims struggling with identity
byJudith Miller

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