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Hanukkah
Dust off your menorah, and get your candles ready! The festival of lights, otherwise known as Hanukkah, begins on Thursday, December 7. Read some of Tablet’s Hanukkah stories for some holiday inspiration.
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For more than 40 years, Jews have been affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic—as doctors, activists, and artists, as well as those suffering from the disease and their loved ones. Tablet has shared these people’s stories, focusing on how they bring Jewish values to the ongoing battle against AIDS, and how that battle has affected their lives as Jews.
The Minyan
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Roundtables on the state of the American Jewish community, bringing together people from a shared demographic or background—everyday people with personal opinions, not experts who earn their salaries discussing these issues.
On Abortion
Hosting women about to have an abortion is the most direct, intimate mitzvah I’ve ever had the privilege to perform.
BY LYNN HARRIS
When It Comes to Becoming a Mother, Sometimes Less Really Is More
When my fertility treatments worked too well, I faced an unexpected moral quandary.
BY REBECCA WOLF
As the abortion debate heats up, Christian groups in New York—on both sides—stake out positions beyond angry rhetoric and stereotypes
BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS
An ‘Unorthodox’ Celebration of Conversion
Listen to five years of deeply moving personal stories, audio diaries, and reported segments about Jews by choice around the world


A Beautifully Jewish Craft-Along for Israel
Join us to make cards, knit hats for lone soldiers, and crochet dolls for hospitalized children


Religious Literacy in America
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Tablet talks about Judaism a lot, but sometimes we like to change the subject. Maggie Phillips covers religious communities across the U.S.—from Christians to Muslims, Hindus to Baha’i, Jehovah’s Witnesses to pagans—to find out what they’re talking about.