Tablet Magazine

Tablet magazine is an online publication focused on general interest topics within the American Jewish community. It is backed by Nextbook and was established in June 2009, taking over from the previous publication Nextbook, which ran from 2003 to 2009.

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I Met Yaron Lischinsky the Day Before He Was Murdered

2 weeks ago | tabletmag.com | Armin Rosen

I met Israeli diplomat Yaron Lischinsky 30 hours before his murder. It was around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. I was leaving the Middle East Forum’s annual policy gathering at a hotel in Washington, D.C., a little early in order to decompress before the evening session and catch one of the final episodes of “Around the Horn.” Lischinsky’s conference nametag caught my eye as I hurried towards the elevators.
Welcome to The Scroll

3 weeks ago | tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald

Let’s talk about bullshit. If you consume the news at all these days it’s likely that most of what you see on a daily basis is bullshit. Some of it pretty obviously so.
You Are Not the Media

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.
Astroturfing MAGA

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald

In their 2006 book, The Shadow Party, David Horowitz and Richard Poe penned the following insight on the structure of astroturf revolutions:In a 1957 tract, Czech Communist Party theoretician Jan Kozák explained how a small number of communists managed to gain power in Czechoslovakia through parliamentary maneuvers. The trick was to exert pressure for radical change from two directions simultaneously—from the upper levels of government and from provocateurs in the streets.
David Horowitz, 1939-2025

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Lee Smith

I’d forgotten that David Horowitz’s Radical Son opens with something breaking:My only clear recollection of my grandfather Morris—a memory forever sharpened by remorse—is that when I was six he sat on my favorite record of the Seven dwarves singing “Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho (It’s off to work we go…)” and broke it. And that I yelled at him, protesting the injustice with all the force my small lungs could muster, as if my yelling could make the record whole.
The Edge Lords

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Lee Smith

Joe Rogan’s podcast yesterday featuring Douglas Murray and Dave Smith talking about the Middle East conflict (among other topics) failed to move the needle in either direction—at least not on any of the subjects the “debate” was purportedly about. The pro-Israel camp was unmoved by Smith’s emotional petitions on behalf of Palestinian civilians.
Jewish Education’s New Model

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Liel Leibovitz

Earlier this year, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs announced it will kick off 2025 by investing $4 million in Project Aleph Bet, a new initiative designed to boost enrollment inJewish day schools in the United States. The original sum, officials said, was supposed to be larger, but more than a year of war and hundreds of thousands of displaced citizens led to budgetary constraints. And yet, the government decided to proceed with the initiative.
The Ghostwriter

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Sheluyang Peng

“Where’s the Semen?” Such was the provocative question headline posed by Jesse Tisch in this magazine’s review of the then-forthcoming Philip Roth: The Biography. The biographer in question was Blake Bailey, who had honed his writer-writing-about-writers skills by penning biographies of the writers Richard Yates, John Cheever, and Charles Jackson. Bailey had extensively interviewed Roth and had exclusive access to the Roth archives.
The King’s Foils

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Michael Doran

When Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he moved fast. Within days, he had reinstated sweeping sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, financial institutions, and entities linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On February 9, Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet with Trump at the White House. The Israeli leader urged decisive action against Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran, he argued, was weaker than it had been in years. Now was the time to break its back.
What You Need to Know About Trump’s Tariffs

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald

Early Monday, markets appeared to be continuing their rout in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariffs. By midmorning, the S&P 500 had posted its worst three-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, and both it and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell into bear-market territory following double-digit declines last week. The carnage was even worse in Asia, where several markets suspended trading Monday morning as massive sell-offs triggered circuit breakers.