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.


Judaism
Religion & Spirituality
Society & Culture
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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
72 min
52
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.
38 min
53
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
53 min
54
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.
21 min
55
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
56
Re-Form: Zionism
Looking at the current state of Zionism in the Reform movement, with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch.
59 min
57
Talking Ta-Nehisi Coates with Karol Markowicz
Karol Markowicz joins Liel to talk about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book, The Message.
49 min
58
Re-Form: Interfaith Marriage
Looking at the Reform response to Jews intermarrying, with Rabbi Beau Shapiro and Rabbi Dr. Lisa D. Grant
44 min
59
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.
14 min
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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.
15 min
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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.
13 min
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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.
13 min
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Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 5: Plus Ça C...
But what about France today, and the world for jews?
19 min
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Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
46 min
65
Re-Form: Mailbox
Josh and Rabbi Diana respond to listeners’ messages
27 min
66
Introducing Rootless with Liel Leibovitz
Israeli intellectual Amiad Cohen on winning wars, seizing land, and changing the reality in the Middle East
49 min
67
Re-Form: Inclusivity
Examining the successes of the Reform movement’s focus on inclusivity
45 min
68
Beautifully Jewish High Holiday Table
The spiritual significance of the simple table, with special guests Rebekah Lowin, Lisa Gaché, and Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook
39 min
69
Everybody Wants This
Erin Foster on her new Netflix show, ‘Nobody Wants This,’ and a trip to Hebrew University
32 min
70
Re-Form: Social Justice
Examining the choice to center social justice with Rabbi Sari Laufer.
49 min
71
Torah Challenges
Introducing the Simchat Torah Challenge, plus inside the IDF base sending Torah scrolls to battle
22 min
72
Re-Form: Patrilineal Descent
Unpacking the decision to recognize patrilineal descent with Rabbi Mark Washofsky
49 min
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Introducing: Re-Form
A new miniseries examining the challenges and choices of America's largest Jewish movement with Rabbi Diana Fersko and Josh Kross
26 min
74
Bernard-Henri Lévy on Israel Alone
Liel Leibovitz talks to Bernard-Henri Lévy about his new book, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Israel Alone
38 min
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Beautifully Jewish, Historically Armenian
Making a Jewish camp experience, and visiting the Old City
28 min