This month, our magazine celebrates its 15th anniversary. Over that decade and a half, Tablet grew dramatically—from a magazine about the Jews to a Jewish magazine about the world, one produced and read by diverse groups of people that now include some of the most influential figures in the arts, science, business, and global politics.
But the same questioning and instinctively anti-conformist DNA was there from the very beginning—as you can see in the chronological selection of stories here. Truth stays constant, even when the world changes radically around it.
—Alana Newhouse
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How a group of teenage believers could reshape the Israeli-Palestinian struggle
BY ELIZABETH RUBIN
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Gillian Laub
The celebrated journalist fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works
BY MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
JULY 30, 2012
Brooklyn’s hip Mile End deli modernizes the traditional meal once again
BY MARC TRACY
DECEMBER 25, 2012
When I bought jeans recently, I redefined what ‘tzniut’ means to me as an Orthodox woman
BY SIMI LAMPERT
JANUARY 2, 2013
For half a century, Greg’s Auto Repair has housed the commode from Aviso Grille, the Führer’s biggest yacht
BY ALEXANDER ACIMAN
JANUARY 29, 2013
As a black classical singer, I avoided singing negro spirituals—until Yiddish music helped me hear them in a new way as a Jew
BY ANTHONY RUSSELL
APRIL 7, 2014
A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong, and why it matters
BY MATTI FRIEDMAN
AUGUST 26, 2014
Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images
Muslim > gay, black > female, and everybody > the Jews
BY JAMES KIRCHICK
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
A three-part story about love, loss, and all the music in between
BY ESTHER SCHOR
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Lincoln Agnew
An oppo-research-for-hire outfit of former reporters tries to seed stories in the American press for global clients
BY LEE SMITH
JULY 27, 2017
Not the most popular, or the tastiest. The most Jewish.
BY ALANA NEWHOUSE
MARCH 6, 2018
Millions of women mobilized against gender inequality and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. But only four of them ended up at the top—and the consequences have been enormous.
BY LEAH MCSWEENEY AND JACOB SIEGEL
DECEMBER 10, 2018
American universities have become whirlpools of downward mobility that target the people and the ideas that they once cherished and protected. It’s time for Jews to stop paying for them.
BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ
MAY 6, 2019
The Tides Network is a powerful instrument leveraged by billionaires working to change America, while shielding their philanthropic dollars from public scrutiny. Here’s how it works.
BY SEAN COOPER
OCTOBER 6, 2020
American liberalism is in danger from a new ideology—one with dangerous implications for Jews
BY BARI WEISS
OCTOBER 14, 2020
And how to fix it
BY ALANA NEWHOUSE
JANUARY 14, 2021
Marcin Wolski
In the Middle East, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
BY MICHAEL DORAN AND TONY BADRAN
MAY 10, 2021
Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.
BY NORMAN DOIDGE
OCTOBER 27, 2021
(To download a free, printer-friendly version of the complete 4-part article, click here.)
CHRISTIAN WATSON
When I saw the left give up everything I believe in, I changed politically. You can, too.
BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ
DECEMBER 8, 2021
A roundtable discussion with non-Jewish spouses about interfaith marriages, raising Jewish children, navigating Jewish and non-Jewish holidays, and where people do—and don’t—feel welcome
BY ABIGAIL POGREBIN
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
A story about Karma
BY DAVID SAMUELS
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation
BY JACOB SIEGEL
MARCH 28, 2023
Adam Maida
A Q&A with historian David Garrow
BY DAVID SAMUELS
AUGUST 2, 2023
Scenes of young women raped next to the dead bodies of their friends
BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ
OCTOBER 8, 2023
How a Zoroastrian celebration of the Persian New Year grew into a broad symbol of cultural resilience and political resistance
BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS
MARCH 18, 2024
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