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Culture News

Technician of the Sacred

A half-century after his groundbreaking ‘ethnopoetic’ anthology, Jerome Rothenberg’s shamanic journey into the sacred poetry of the past continues to lead him to the unknowns of poetry’s future

By Jake Marmer · March 14, 2018
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Culture News

Sarmad the Magnificently Naked 17th-Century Jewish Mystic

Jewish engagement with non-Western faiths is much older than any recent ‘JuBu’ fad

By Blake Smith · December 16, 2016
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Fiction and Essays

The Clinging

Tablet Fiction: An evil spirit has entered a living person. Can the Rabbi perform a Jewish exorcism?

By Alexander Besher · June 19, 2014
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Music

Madonna’s Homeless Brother Dishes on the Pop Queen’s Childhood Passover Seders

Exclusive footage of Anthony Ciccone singing his sister’s hit ‘Like a Prayer’: ‘It means something to me,’ he says

By Adi Gold and Tal Miller · April 9, 2014
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Book Reviews

Balkan Mystery

In Leeches, a novel by the Serbian Jewish writer David Albahari, Belgrade plays home to nationalists, anti-Semites, and kabbalistic puzzles

By Adam Kirsch · May 24, 2011
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Observance

Under a Spell

The long history of Jews and the occult

By Peter Bebergal · October 30, 2009
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Book Reviews

Woman of Mystery

Author Benjamin Moser explores the enigmatic life of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector

By Vox Tablet · October 28, 2009
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The Scroll

Rabbi, Mystic, Miracle of Nature

Tells fortunes in Brooklyn, right or wrong

By Allison Hoffman · August 13, 2009
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Visual Art & Design

The Loew Life

Artist Mark Podwal’s love affair with Prague

By Jeannie Rosenfeld · February 24, 2009
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Music

In the Spirit

If you’ve never understood Kabbalah, music might be the way in

By Alexander Gelfand · January 8, 2009
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Book Reviews

Spirits in the Material World

Uncovering the legend of the dybbuk

By Sarah Breger · September 18, 2008
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Observance

Radical Mystic

A onetime scientist’s progression from atheism to spiritualism

By Nelly Reifler · January 24, 2008
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Living in a Material World

The spiritual fad of the new millennium hinges on a cryptic, erotic, medieval text. If anyone can explain why, it’s Daniel Matt.

By Sara Ivry · January 14, 2004
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