Tablet Studios
From weekly series examining unique angles on Jews’ place in the world, to inquiries into the details of Jewish text and tradition, Tablet Studios podcasts bring you insight and inspiration for the modern-day Jew. Our shows include How to Be a Jew, Unorthodox, Rootless, Re-Form, and more to come.
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Jewish Studies Unscrolled: The Petitions of Rab...
Glenn Dynner joins us to explore the kvitlekh of Rabbi Elijah Guttmacher, revealing how these 19th-century petitions offer a window into the personal struggles and spiritual life of Eastern European Jews.
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Jewish Studies Unscrolled: Bruce Springsteen, w...
Rabbis Elliot Cosgrove and Neil Zuckerman join us to explore the spiritual resonance of Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road,” reflecting on themes of tradition, homecoming, and why certain texts—sacred or secular—endure across generations.
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Jewish Studies Unscrolled: Hostages and Nathan ...
Adam Teller joins us to uncover how Nathan Hanover’s The Abyss of Despair reveals a remarkable 17th-century Jewish rescue network
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How to Be a Jew ... At Christmas
Our first episode tackles the ultimate assimilation holiday and the music that goes with it. We are joined by musician Peter Himmelman
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Coming Soon: Jewish Studies Unscrolled
Coming soon from Tablet Studios, host Alyssa Quint and expert guests read and discuss Jewish texts alongside history, culture, and ideas.
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Rootless: The Best of 2024
Should Israel annex parts of Lebanon? Are we getting abortions all wrong? And how has so much of American publishing turned into a cesspool of Jew-hatred? A roundup of some of 2024 most essential conversations.
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Coming Soon - How to Be a Jew
Coming Soon - How to Be a Jew
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How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole G...
The Manhattan Institute Fellow and New York Post columnist talks to Liel about the subway death that rocked gotham, and about why being obsessed with race is keeping us from addressing much more difficult questions
46 min
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How to Change the Way We Think About Abortion, ...
How to Change the Way We Think About Abortion, with Erica Pelman
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The Disastrous Lebanon Ceasefire Deal, with Ton...
Tablet’s news editor joins Liel to discuss why Israel just signed a deal that rewards its enemies and gives it little discernible in return
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How to Change Politically, with Dr. Sebastian G...
How to Change Politically, with Dr. Sebastian Gorka
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The Strange Death of American Publishing with A...
The storied book editor joins Liel to discuss how and why American publishers became partisan propagandists
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What Just Happened at the Ballot? With Eli Lake...
Liel is joined by Eli Lake and Tablet's Editor-in-Chief Alana Newhouse to talk about why Tuesday's historical election should make all Americans, regardless of partisan affiliation, hopeful.
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What's Really Killing American Democracy, with ...
Liel is joined by writer Will Tanner to discuss the historical comparisons to the challenges faced by America
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Tablet Radio Hour: Featuring Tablet’s Minyan
On this episode of Tablet Radio Hour, Wayne Hoffman, Abigail Pogrebin, and Jamie Betesh Carter assemble two Minyans to dissect how Jews are casting their votes this election.
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Reasons to be Hopeful with Peter Himmelman
The rock star and author joins Liel to talk about God, love, grief, sex, and why we’re going to be just fine
66 min
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Re-Form: Zionism
Looking at the current state of Zionism in the Reform movement, with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch.
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Talking Ta-Nehisi Coates with Karol Markowicz
Karol Markowicz joins Liel to talk about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book, The Message.
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Re-Form: Interfaith Marriage
Looking at the Reform response to Jews intermarrying, with Rabbi Beau Shapiro and Rabbi Dr. Lisa D. Grant
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 1: The Illit...
In this first episode, we begin with the fraught political climate in France, a secretly gay general, and an illiterate cleaning lady-turned-spy had to do with it all.
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 2: How to Fr...
An ambitious soldier with a fraudulent smoking gun sets off a chain of events that leads to the embarrassment and punishment of an innocent Jew.
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 3: Free Alfr...
As Dreyfus wastes away on Devil’s Island, his wife and brother back in France fight for his freedom and exoneration.
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 4: Emile Zol...
France's most influential writer of its time, Emile Zola , becomes the champion of the victim, even at his own, perhaps fatal expense.
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 5: Plus Ça C...
But what about France today, and the world for jews?
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Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
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