Tablet Magazine
Laura Loomer’s Ukraine Evolution
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- Laura Loomer’s Ukraine Evolution
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Joining The Barbarians this week, Laura Loomer talks about her journey from being censored on social media and championed by Russian media to her now unapologetically pro-Ukraine stance.
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- Have we learned any lessons from the past 25 years?
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Why do Americans have such difficulty taking their enemies’ stated beliefs and motivations seriously, instead translating them into grievances that make sense within an American framework?
The Barbarians discuss 9/11 and our Sept issue cover story in the latest episode. Listen to the latest out now.
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- 9/11, 25 Years Later: Has America Learned the Right Lessons?
- Runtime
- 1:09:01
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Twenty-five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the questions they raised about America’s understanding of the Middle East, radical Islam, and its own institutions remain unsettled.
In this special conversation, Tablet Editor at Large Liel Leibovitz moderates a panel of scholars and academic leaders examining the lessons America drew from 9/11—and whether some of those lessons led the country badly astray. The discussion looks back at the errors made in responding to the attacks, the ways the ensuing quarter-century reshaped American academia and culture, and the intellectual and political challenges that remain today.
The panel features Donna Robinson Divine, Morningstar Family Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and Professor Emerita of Government at Smith College; E. Gordon Gee, President Emeritus of West Virginia University; Franck Salameh, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Boston College; and Cole Bunzel, Professor of Middle East history and...
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- Is voting Democrat more important than the Jewish people's survival?
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel thinks so.
Mike and Gadi discuss on the latest Israel Update. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Do It Scared
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- New years hit differently in times of uncertainty. When the future feels shaky, Editor in Chief Alana Newhouse says the question isn't how to stop being afraid, but what we choose to do with that fear.
Our September print issue, featuring Aayan Hirsi Ali's story on 9/11, is out now.
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- Jewish Statehood and American Tribal Law
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Native American reservations preserve the sovereignty, territorial boundaries, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples. What if Israel belongs in the same political tradition?
Across America, tribal nations maintain their own governments, citizenship, courts, laws, and protected homelands. Far from being incompatible with liberal democracy, tribal sovereignty is embedded in the American constitutional order and backed by generations of bipartisan support.
Read more in Tablet.
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- Take Me Down to Habibi City
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- How much of New York’s suddenly fashionable Arab identity is being built on the cultural currency of Gaza?
The Barbarians discuss “Habibi City” and the supposed Arab cultural takeover of New York.
The latest episode available now!
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- Israel’s Economy Defied the Crisis
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- On the latest Israel Update, a look at one of the more surprising stories of the past few years: the remarkable resilience of Israel’s economy and stock market through political upheaval, Oct. 7, and years of war.
Listen in full wherever you get your podcasts.
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- On Arab Zionism
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In the latest Israel Update, Einat Wilf explains why peace requires more than reluctantly accepting Israel’s existence. It requires Palestinians to let go of the idea that the Jewish state should not exist.
She calls it “Arab Zionism.”
Catch up wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Boy George Accepts Tablet Sinai Award
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- After releasing a song in support of Israel and the Jewish people, Boy George parted ways with his record label manager over the song, and Bandcamp later removed the track.
This summer, Tablet honored Boy George with a Sinai Award for his consistent moral courage. He also graced the cover of our July issue.
As Boy George puts it: “Fashion for the fragile. Style for the brave.”
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- What happens when the tools of mass destruction fit inside a garage?
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- A foiled plot to attack a White House UFC event wasn't just another terror case. It may be a preview of the next era of terrorism, where drones, AI, and commercially available technology put unprecedented power in the hands of a handful of people.
Read more in Tablet.
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- World War II Revisionism Is Becoming Rampant
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Who wants you to hate America's past—and why?
Josh Appel traces how both progressive and right-wing revisionists have chipped away at America's defining historical narratives, specifically WWII, arguing that the goal isn't a more honest history but a new national mythology built on cynicism.
Read more in Tablet.
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- When is it time to stop running?
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- This month’s issue asks a simple question: Is survival enough? What happens after you’ve escaped? When is it time to stop running and start imagining something bigger?
From the unlikely Holocaust origins of Club Med to a powerful argument for choosing hope over retreat, these are stories about what comes after making it out alive.
Our August issue out now.
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- If America can't win wars, what is the Pentagon for?
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- As Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump in Washington, the Barbarians panel broke down what was at stake—from Iran to Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions and the latest violence in Judea and Samaria.
Catch up on the latest episode of The Barbarians wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Why did Rahm Emanuel head to Israel?
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In the latest Israel Update, Mike and Gadi discuss Emanuel's speech and visit to Israel, the MOU, Ro Khanna's West Bank excursion and more.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- What's going on with the Lebanon agreement?
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Mike and Gadi revisit their MOU debate.
Tune in to the latest Israel Update.
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- Was Platner easier to cast aside because he's a white man?
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- On this week's Barbarians, why did so many Democrats turning on Platner after sticking by him through so many terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad things he has said and done before?
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- Why do US presidents keep misunderstanding radicalism?
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Dr. Dan Schueftan joins Gadi Taub for the latest Israel Update to explain why President Trump's new MOU repeats what he sees as a longstanding American mistake: failing to understand the nature of radical movements.
Listen now.
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- 'Mamdani Has No Real Working Class Support'
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- This week on Israel Update, Batya Ungar Sargon joins Gadi Taub and Mike Doran to talk Jews and the Left, Zohran Mamdani, and everything in between.
Listen today.
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- Can the left in Israel coalesce and gain power?
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Plus, what does the Iran MOU tell America’s enemies—and what could it mean for Netanyahu’s political future?
The latest Israel Update out now.
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- Why is Vance still trying to cater to the Tucker Carlson base?
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- The Barbarians return to tackle Trump’s Iran policy, Israel’s next moves, California’s election chaos, and the week’s most confounding headlines.
Subscribe and tune in.
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- The Battle for Israel's Soul - Coming June 9th
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Early 2023 was a good time in Israel. The attack of October 7 was months in the future, and Israelis were enjoying a period of peace and prosperity. The economy was booming. The country came out fourth in the ranking of the world's happiest nations. You'd expect Israelis to sit back and celebrate their good fortune. Instead, they took to the streets en masse, sending the country into a tailspin that now, three years later, only grows stronger.
The catalyst for these protests was an attempt by Bibi Netanyahu's government to reform the country's judicial system, but, very soon, it became clear that the battle being fought in the streets was about something much bigger. It was about Israel's soul. What did each side want? And which will win? Featuring prominent voices from all sides of the debate, this series explores the ideas and anxieties driving one of the most consequential struggles in modern Israeli history.
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- The Unsettling Genius of ‘Industry’
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- In HBO's Industry, the endless pursuit of money, power, and leverage becomes a way to avoid confronting what’s underneath.
What makes the show genius?
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- How an Ivy League Summer Program Turned Into Indoctrination
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- At an elite summer program meant to teach free thinking and self-government, students were taught to “cede” their speaking time based on identity, friendships were treated as dangerous, and teenagers who challenged the group dynamic were voted out and removed from the program.
One student gave a presentation defending Hamas to snapping approval from staff. Another professor later described being put on trial by students for “harmful” behavior and insufficiently radical views.
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- The Impossible Escape
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Santa Teresa is a one-road beach town in Costa Rica with 3,000 residents. About 500 of them are Israeli.
They left their country not because of persecution or poverty or lack of love but because of something subtler. Exhaustion. So they found the most opposite place imaginable and rebuilt everything they left behind. Synagogues, Shabbat dinners, Hebrew on surfboards.
Why do people who leave home feel compelled to reconstruct it, and what responsibility does that place on a community representing their people abroad?
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- What's the deal with the Yair Lapid–Naftali Bennett alliance?
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- It’s that time of the cycle when everything is judged by its possible influence on the coming October 2026 elections. Mike and Gadi discuss Netanyahu’s health, the not-yet-appointed Commission of Inquiry for Oct. 7, and the new political party formed by the merging of Bennett 2026 with Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- The Fall of Europe
- Runtime
- 4:53
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Oct. 7 didn't just change the Middle East. It changed the West, and Europe is the proof.
From Sciences Po to Molenbeek to Villa Park, antisemitic acts quadrupled, Jewish communities are vanishing, and in Birmingham a Hezbollah-linked report helped police decide that the Jews were the threat.
Based on Marc Weitzmann's Tablet print piece. Head to Tablet to read.
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- Why are people close to Donald Trump briefing Barak Ravid?
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- There are several possible developments regarding Iran: an improved version of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; a resumption of hostilities; or a continuation of the current situation with economic pressure grinding down the Islamic Republic. The United States can afford to wait longer than Iran can. U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to choose between those options based on how he views the impact on China.
Also in this episode: Israel’s imperial Supreme Court thinks it has the authority to remove an elected minister. Listen to the latest episode wherever you get your episodes.
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- Iran Threatened to Close Homruz, Now It May Be Losing Control of It
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- It is clear at this point who has the leverage: We—the U.S. and Israel—are winning this war.
Rather than opening the Strait of Hormuz, Trump is closing it to Iranian shipping. It is unlikely that the Islamic Republic’s military dictatorship can survive this for long.
Listen to the latest episode of Israel Update wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Zionism for Everyone
- Runtime
- 4:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- At a moment of rapid technological change and political confusion, the West has found a strange obsession: Zionism.
Not because of what Israel is, but because of what it represents—a form of national life that still believes in itself.
Read the full piece in Tablet.
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- "This is what victory looks like."
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- In the latest episode of Israel Update, Mike and Gadi discuss the pros and cons of the ceasefire, the feasibility of an agreement, and the not unlikely return to military operations two weeks from now.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- The Jews Who Didn't Leave Egypt
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Most people don’t know that only one-fifth of the Jews left Egypt. Most chose comfort over freedom, the life they knew over the uncertainty of the desert.
Let us celebrate the ones who left—by following their example.
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- Is Israel Burning?
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Jen Brick Murtazashvili cuts through the rumors on the latest Israel Update.
Watch more with Mike Doran & Gadi Taub.
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- TABLET VIDEO | In Every Generation: A Rabbi’s Passover in Nasser’s Prisons
- Runtime
- 7:59
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Rabbi Albert Gabbai celebrated Passover from a prison cell under Nasser, imprisoned alongside hundreds of other Jews. Decades later, in Brooklyn, he and his family see differently what it means to have been slaves in Egypt.
Directed & Produced by Justin Green
Cinematography & Editing by Alex Fjellberg Swerdlowe
Audience Editor, Tablet Magazine: Isaac de Castro
Deputy Editor, Tablet Magazine: Ani Wilcenski
Editor-in-Chief, Tablet Magazine: Alana Newhouse
Archival: The Oster Visual Documentation Center; TF/AFP via Getty Images; Pond5; Alamy
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- Title
- The Hoax of the Century
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In 2023, Jacob Siegel wrote his landmark Tablet essay on the modern disinformation regime. Now he’s expanded it into The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control.
How has disinformation reshaped media, politics, and the internet, and why?
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- What Gulf States Want the War to Continue?
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Mike and Gadi discuss what's at stake for the American-led international order if Iran's regime survives, why Trump understands the urgency, and Israel's deep state reaching new levels of legal surrealism.
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- Is Tucker being investigated by the CIA as a foreign agent?
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Plus, Trump and Iran, how far he goes and what options exist beyond military action, along with Israel’s next move in Lebanon and the latest on Sde Teiman.
Watch the latest Israel Update to catch up.
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- Take a look inside the only Greek-Jewish Synagogue in NYC
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Theo takes us inside Kehila Kedosha Janina, a historic Greek-Jewish synagogue in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Founded in 1906, with the shul built in 1927, KKJ has flourished through a century of immigration and migration.
Today, it remains both a vibrant, active Jewish community and cultural landmark, welcoming thousands of visitors who learn about the Greek-Jewish diaspora at its museum.
Each May, the community’s crown jewel returns: the Greek Jewish Festival, transforming the NYC streets outside into a celebration of food, music, performances, and joy.
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- The plight of being a Mets fan as told by Meredith Shiner.
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Baseball teaches you how to accept loss.
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Why are Jews so obsessed with baseball?
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Moses wandered the desert for 40 years. Mets fans are getting close to the full biblical experience.
- Runtime
- 0:10
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Liel Leibovitz shares how an Israeli friend helped him choose his NYC baseball team.
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- Every Mets fan has a story. Here's Josh Kross's — and it's very Jewish. #Mets
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Title
- What New Yorkers think about a socialist running for mayor?
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We hit the streets with Chelsea Jacobson to see how people feel about Zohran’s vision for the city.
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- Maya Shaw: Sefer Sessions Concert
- Runtime
- 0:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Tablet presents the debut of Sefer Sessions, an intimate concert hosted at the Tablet office in New York City.
Maya Shaw, an Israeli singer-songwriter, opens our series with her blend of raw emotion and modern pop sound. She explores love, loss, and passion through her music in a novel acoustic rendition, weaving heartfelt lyrics with soulful melodies. All songs performed are original compositions by Maya Shaw.
SET LIST
Sleep Tight My Love
Crying In My Car
Bring Me In
One Mistake
Addiction For Love
Dreams
MUSICIANS
Maya Shaw: vocals
Kai Gluska: guitar
Alexi Baker: background vocals
SEFER SESSIONS TEAM
Producer: Alan Shindelman
Audio Director: Josh Kross
Audio Engineer: Quinn Waller
Videographer/Editor: Alan Shindelman
Production Assistant: Olena Rappaport
Inspiration: NPR’s Tiny Desk
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- West Village Chabad Tour
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rabbi Berel of the West Village Chabad gives us a tour of their townhouse-turned-shul. A community led center that’s been creatively transformed into a loving hub of Jewish life. Our visit continues to the West Side Highway, where their waterfront Sukkah brings a uniquely New York spirit to Sukkot.
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- Maya Shaw: Sefer Sessions Concert
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Tablet presents the debut of Sefer Sessions, an intimate concert hosted at the Tablet office in New York City.
Maya Shaw, an Israeli singer-songwriter, opens our series with her blend of raw emotion and modern pop sound. She explores love, loss, and passion through her music in a novel acoustic rendition, weaving heartfelt lyrics with soulful melodies. All songs performed are original compositions by Maya Shaw.
SET LIST
Sleep Tight My Love
Crying In My Car
Bring Me In
One Mistake
Addiction For Love
Dreams
MUSICIANS
Maya Shaw: vocals
Kai Gluska: guitar
Alexi Baker: background vocals
SEFER SESSIONS TEAM
Producer: Alan Shindelman
Audio Director: Josh Kross
Audio Engineer: Quinn Waller
Videographer/Editor: Alan Shindelman
Production Assistant: Olena Rappaport
Inspiration: NPR’s Tiny Desk
- Title
- Maya Shaw: Sefer Sessions Concert
- Runtime
- 28:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Tablet presents the debut of Sefer Sessions, an intimate concert hosted at the Tablet office in New York City.
Maya Shaw, an Israeli singer-songwriter, opens our series with her blend of raw emotion and modern pop sound. She explores love, loss, and passion through her music in a novel acoustic rendition, weaving heartfelt lyrics with soulful melodies. All songs performed are original compositions by Maya Shaw.
SET LIST
Sleep Tight My Love
Crying In My Car
Bring Me In
One Mistake
Addiction For Love
Dreams
MUSICIANS
Maya Shaw: vocals
Kai Gluska: guitar
Alexi Baker: background vocals
SEFER SESSIONS TEAM
Producer: Alan Shindelman
Audio Director: Josh Kross
Audio Engineer: Quinn Waller
Videographer/Editor: Alan Shindelman
Production Assistant: Olena Rappaport
Inspiration: NPR’s Tiny Desk
- Title
- Omer Adam Sold Out Madison Square Garden
- Runtime
- 0:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Twenty thousand people packed Madison Square Garden as Israeli superstar Omer Adam turned the arena into a night of music, unity, and celebration.
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