Alana Newhouse

3 weeks ago | tabletmag.com | Alana Newhouse

More than a decade ago, I gave a speech in Cleveland. During the Q&A, a man in the back asked me what I thought of the then-emerging Iran deal, and I hemmed and hawed my way through a bullshit answer that said nothing. As I was leaving, he approached me. “Listen,” he said firmly. “I’m a dentist. It’s my job to wake up in the morning and fix people’s teeth. It’s your job to tell me what to think about the Iran deal or Greenpeace or whatever.

Oct 28, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Alana Newhouse

I talk to Jews. All day, every day.

Apr 22, 2024 | thedailyscroll.substack.com | Alana Newhouse |Park MacDougald

The “mostly peaceful” protests at Columbia University continued over the weekend, following the failed attempt by the NYPD and university administration to clear the campus’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” late last week.

Nov 8, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Alana Newhouse

Years ago, I read a 1923 short story by Dovid Bergelson that has haunted me ever since. Titled “Among the Refugees,” it revolves around a tormented Jew originally from a region called Volhynia, who has moved to a squalid boarding house in Berlin. One day, into the room across the hall from him moves the notorious pogromist from his hometown, the person responsible for, among many other horrors, his grandfather’s death.

Nov 6, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran |Stephanie Butnick |Liel Leibovitz |Park MacDougald |Sheila Nazarian |Alana Newhouse | +7 more

Kathryn Wolf: Use Your RageIzabella Tabarovsky: Let Russian Jews LeadLiel Leibovitz: Get a GunMy whole life, I hated public speaking so much that I would feel queasy introducing myself to a dinner party.