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The article discusses the changing face of Jewish life in Berlin. It focuses on the Shtetl Berlin Yiddish Culture Festival and the efforts to bring Jews and ...

During the challenging time of mourning her parents, the author found solace and connection through participating in a daily Zoom minyan for Kaddish recitati...

Antony Blinken, the nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, has a Yiddish author great-grandfather named Meir Blinkin. Meir Blinkin's stories were published bef...

The text discusses the idea of giving the baby boomer generation a drug called Chew-Z to envision an alternate reality where Martin Luther King Jr. was not a...

Bayard Rustin, an African American civil rights leader, was a prominent advocate for Israel and condemned the Black Power movement's embrace of the Palestini...

The article explores the experiences of nonbinary Jews and the challenges they face in navigating gendered spaces and rituals within the Jewish community. It...

The Boogaloo movement is a loosely connected network of young men who are anti-government, anti-police, and obsessed with an imminent civil war. They have be...

The author reflects on their personal experience of navigating the brokenness of the American medical system and the media industry. They discuss how systemi...

In the past, bagels were a popular snack in Vilnius, Lithuania, especially among the Jewish community. However, with the Holocaust and the disappearance of t...

This article discusses the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, analyzing the historical significance of the insurrection and the role ...

The text argues that the Arab-Israeli conflict is effectively dead with the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, B...

The Supreme Court recently made a decision prohibiting New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive order that limited attendance at houses of worship as part ...

This essay recounts the author's experiences with their father and the strong desire he had for them to keep him company. The author reflects on the guilt an...

The article discusses the rise of "mommy doulas" among Jewish women, who enroll in doula training workshops to support their daughters or daughters-in-law du...

The author reflects on their upbringing in a white-flight suburb of Memphis and how they used to view their Confederate heritage as something to be proud of,...

The author expresses their dislike and confusion towards the book of Psalms, even as it gains popularity during the pandemic. They criticize the voice of the...

This personal essay reflects on the author's relationship with her cousin, Debbie Friedman, a Jewish musician and songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s and...

This article discusses Shelomo Dov Goitein's review of the 1963 University of Chicago edition of Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed." The publication of thi...

The author discusses the current crises facing the American regime, focusing on the political crisis, the identity crisis, the social crisis, the demographic...

Arash Aziz's biography of Qassem Soleimani, titled "The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions," explores the life of Iran's most...

The author discusses the decoupling of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, noting that the terms "Arab-Israeli Conflict" and "Is...

The issue of vaccine triage and allocation in the context of limited COVID-19 vaccine doses is discussed from a Jewish perspective. While Jewish law supports...

Aharon Appelfeld, a Jewish writer, reflects on the state of the world in 2016, lamenting the loss of a central authority and the fragmentation of society int...

The author reflects on her family's history of abandonment and estrangement, particularly her grandfather's bitterness towards her father. Through a late-nig...

"The City Without Jews" examines the eerie vision presented in the 1924 film, set in a troubled fictional land where anti-Semitic sentiment leads to the forc...

This article reflects on the loss of significant figures in the Jewish community and beyond in 2020, drawing on the poem "When Great Trees Fall" by Maya Ange...

The Frankfurt Lehrhaus, or Free Jewish House of Learning, was established by Franz Rosenzweig in 1920 as a new model of adult Jewish education for Western Je...

The Yiddish community in Melbourne, Australia has thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre creating Shakespeare monologues in Y...

The Declaration and Last Will of the Leningrad Hijackers is a document written by Yosef Mendelevich on behalf of a group of Jews who attempted to hijack a pl...

This text discusses the changing image of the shtetl, or Eastern European Jewish town, in post-war Jewish American identity. It examines Abraham Joshua Hesch...

The article discusses the Leningrad hijacking plot in 1970, where a group of Jewish activists attempted to hijack a Soviet airplane to escape to Israel. This...

The highest court in Europe recently upheld several Belgian regional bans on kosher and halal animal slaughter, which cuts off a local source of meat for obs...

In "Heidi of Princeton," Moshe Koppel reflects on his transformative experience at Princeton's kosher dining hall in the 1980s, where he encountered Heidi, a...

The author discusses their frustration in not being able to find Bob Dylan's song "Neighborhood Bully" on YouTube due to it being labeled as hate speech. The...

The article delves into the complex and dramatic succession process within the Sadiger Hasidic dynasty following the death of Rabbi Yisroel Moishe Friedman. ...

The author reflects on the importance of honoring the body in death, inspired by Jewish traditions. They describe the role of a shomer, a guardian who watche...

Nicholas Clairmont examines the controversy surrounding the honorific title "Doctor" in relation to Jill Biden, who holds an Ed.D., highlighting broader soci...

The author discusses why they don't allow their children to watch Christmas episodes of their favorite shows. They believe in preserving their Jewish traditi...

The text discusses the intertwined dynamics of Zionism and Bolshevism during the years preceding and during World War I. It highlights events such as the Men...

"The King of Warsaw" is a translated Polish novel by Szczepan Twardoch about Jewish criminals in pre-Holocaust Warsaw. The question of whether non-Jews can w...

This article discusses the connection between Beethoven's music and the concept of freedom. It highlights how Bernstein substituted the word "freedom" for "j...

In a Russian shtetl during the mid-1800s, a man claiming to be a Jewish soldier named Dovid returns after 25 years in the czarist army, seeking his family. T...

The article discusses the significance and decline of Jaffa oranges in Israeli culture. Oranges have long been associated with Israel and its identity, with ...

The author suggests that to understand the events of 2020, one can look at the year 1840. They draw parallels between the two periods, noting the technologic...

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Tablet Magazine is accepting applications for its journalism program for Spring 2021. The program is similar to an internship, with participants working 15-1...

This article reflects on the lives of Clive James and Jonathan Miller, two influential figures in the arts who recently passed away. James was known for his ...

The author reflects on their experience of giving birth during the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. Despite the fear and chaos surrounding them, they find...

The author reflects on their experience with Yiddish, their childhood language and the language of their Hasidic community. They discuss their love for the E...

This essay explores the reasons behind the involvement of many doctors in the Holocaust and emphasizes the moral lessons that can be learned from this dark c...