Tablet (magazine) explained

Tablet
Language:English
Publisher:Nextbook
Editor:Alana Newhouse
Issn:1551-2940

Tablet is a conservative-leaning[1] online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture.[2] [3] The magazine was founded in 2009 and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Its editor-in-chief is Alana Newhouse.

History

Tablet was founded in June 2009 by Alana Newhouse, former culture editor at The Forward, with the support of the Nextbook foundation as a redeveloped and news-focused version of the Jewish literary journal Nextbook. In the three years after its founding, New York Magazine described Tablet as a "must-read for young politically and culturally engaged Jews.[4] [5] [6] Its reporting has largely focused on Jewish news and culture.[7]

In February 2015, Tablet tested a monetization method in which viewers could read articles for free but were required to pay to comment on them. Commenting cost $2 per day, $18 per month, or $180 per year.[8] [9]

Notable stories

In July 2012, Tablet contributor Michael C. Moynihan broke the story on journalist Jonah Lehrer's fabrication of Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine.[10] [11] [12] Tablet's publication of the article ultimately led to Lehrer's resignation from The New Yorker and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's recall of Imagine and his second book How We Decide.[13] [14] Moynihan's investigation into Lehrer and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the article later became subject of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.[15] [16]

In August 2018, while Julia Salazar was campaigning for election to the New York State Senate, Tablet published an article questioning Salazar's claims that she was Jewish and an immigrant. Jewish Currents published an interview in which Salazar responded to the Tablet piece.[17]

After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018, Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse and all six members of the magazine's editorial staff traveled to Pittsburgh to report on the shooting and its aftermath. Newhouse told The New York Times that "large-picture stories [and] the big-picture trends on right-wing radicalization" could be "left for think pieces for later", stating that Tablet staff were "focused on pieces where we could root them in the stories of actual human beings affected by this one way or the other." The magazine's coverage included reporting on the funerals of people killed in the shooting, and a special edition of their podcast Unorthodox.

In December 2018, Tablet published an article about the Women's March in Washington, D.C., after the election of Donald Trump as president. It argued that Women's March leaders had excluded Jewish women from leadership positions and used antisemitic language since the organization began in 2016. It especially critiqued connections to Louis Farrakhan. The article came after months of growing pressure on the group, including local chapters issuing critiques and the National Organization for Women ending financial support (though still encouraging members to attend Women's March events).[18] [19] [20] The organizers spoke against Farrakhan's most extreme statements, issued an apology, and made organizational changes to better include Jews in leadership. However, the leadership did not generally condemn Farrakhan, an act that led to enduring backlash.[21] [22]

In April 2021, Tablet published an article by the researchers behind a study which found that, in contrast to the general consensus that education reduces antisemitism, more highly educated people may be more antisemitic. The survey was based on the concept of a double standard, and asked questions of respondents while showing them one of two examples, where only one was related to Judaism; for example, one question asked whether public gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic "posed a threat to public health and should have been prevented," and provided either Black Lives Matter protests or Orthodox Jewish funerals as examples. The researchers asserted in Tablet that respondents to the questions should have answered similarly regardless of the examples given, and that respondents' tendencies to apply principles more harshly to Jews than non-Jews was an indication of antisemitism.[23]

Notable interviews

Podcasts

In 2015, Tablet launched Unorthodox, a podcast about Jewish life and culture, hosted by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz and Joshua Malina. The podcast features a weekly roundup of the "News of the Jews," an interview with a "Jew of the Week," and an interview with a "Gentile of the Week."[35] [36] The podcast has been downloaded over six million times and produces a live show that has performed across the United States.[37] [38]

Tablet Studios has published a range of podcasts including Radioactive, about antisemitic radio priest Charles Coughlin,[39] Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews in the Ivy League,[40] and Take One, a daily podcast in which the host and a guest discuss a page of Talmud.[41]

From 2014 until 2022, Tablet partnered with the podcast Israel Story on its first six seasons.[42] [43]

In December 2023, the USC Shoah Foundation announced its partnership with Tablet Studios, to launch a collection of audio and video testimonies from the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.[44] [45]

Staff

Tablets editor-in-chief is Alana Newhouse. Her husband David Samuels is literary editor.[46] Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large, and Lee Smith is a contributor.[47]

Sasha Senderovich and Shaul Magid have both become critical of Tablet after initially contributing work to it. Senderovich left the magazine after a series of 2017 articles in which Liel Leibovitz defended Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, while Magid left in 2021 after feeling that his internal criticism of conservative content was ineffective.

Tablet's stable of contributors and contributing editors includes journalists Matti Friedman,[48] Wesley Yang,[49] and Michael C. Moynihan, fiction writers Howard Jacobson,[50] Dara Horn,[51] David Bezmozgis,[52] Ayelet Tsabari,[53] Etgar Keret,[54] and Ben Marcus,[55] academics Anthony Grafton,[56] Elisa New,[57] Bernard-Henri Lévy,[58] Edward Luttwak,[59] Walter Russell Mead,[60] Norman Doidge,[61] Jacob Soll,[62] Michael Lind,[63] Natalie Zemon Davis,[64] and Maxim D. Shrayer,[65] [66] novelists Marc Weitzmann,[67] and Kinky Friedman,[68] the critics Marco Roth,[69] and J. Hoberman,[70] and cartoonist Jules Feiffer.[71]

In 2017, Tablet hired award-winning journalist Gretchen Rachel Hammond, who was fired from her reporting duties at the Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper, after Hammond broke the story that three Jewish women were asked to leave the Chicago Dyke March for carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with Jewish stars.[72]

Controversies

In 2011, Tablet announced that Jeffrey Goldberg would move his blog from the website of The Atlantic to Tablet. Goldberg corroborated the announcement in June 2011. However, he never took this action and continued to publish in The Atlantic. In May 2016, after Tablet literary editor David Samuels published a profile of Obama advisor Ben Rhodes in The New York Times Magazine that described Goldberg as a "handpicked Beltway insider" who helped to "retail" the arguments of the Obama administration in support of the Iran deal, Goldberg attributed the negative characterization to a "longtime personal grudge" held by Samuels as a result of Goldberg's decision not to move to Tablet.

In 2012, Tablet published a review of Breaking Bad by author Anna Breslaw in which Breslaw criticized Holocaust survivors, including those in her family, as "villains masquerading as victims who, solely by virtue of surviving (very likely by any means necessary), felt that they had earned the right to be heroes [...] conniving, indestructible, taking and taking." Jeffrey Goldberg observed in The Atlantic that Tablet had "brought together Commentarys John Podhoretz and The Nations Katha Pollitt [...] by publishing a vicious attack on Holocaust survivors", and called for the magazine to publish an apology to Holocaust survivors.[73] The magazine did apologize for publishing Breslaw's piece. In In These Times, staff writer Lindsay Beyerstein described the article as "the worst thing that Tablet has ever published" and "a disgrace on every level".[74]

In October 2017, Tablet published an article by contributor Mark Oppenheimer titled "The Specifically Jewish Perviness of Harvey Weinstein".[75] The article argued that the sexual assaults by Harvey Weinstein were distinctly Jewish, and was shared favorably by David Duke and neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. Oppenheimer issued an apology for the piece, which was described in Jewish left-leaning quarterly magazine Jewish Currents as both supporting "an antisemitic stereotype" and avoiding discussion of "the rampant misogyny that exists in both the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds".[76]

On September 29, 2022, the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) "paused" a relationship with Tablet which had enabled the magazine to place advertisements through AJS. The pause came in response to complaints by AJS members about the content published by Tablet; Jewish Currents reported that the critiques centered around articles published in Tablet within the past five years. Progressive magazine Jewish Currents also noted in an email newsletter that several Tablet contributors are Trump supporters and asserted that "much of the magazine's content is focused on decrying liberal 'wokeness'", arguing that while Tablet initially "gained a reputation for publishing high-quality arts and culture content", a conservative editorial line became more pronounced during the presidency of Donald Trump.

Awards

Tablet has received two National Magazine Awards.[77] [78] The magazine won a Rockower Award in 2013 and another in 2022.[79] [80]

Lists

In 2010, Tablet published the first of its "Greatest" lists: the "100 Greatest Jewish Songs."[81] [82] In 2011, Tablet published the "100 Greatest Jewish Films," which awarded its top spot to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[83] [84] In 2013, Tablet published its list of "101 Great Jewish Books," including authors such as Betty Friedan, Sholem Aleichem, Karl Marx and Art Spiegelman.[85] [86]

In 2018, Tablet published the "100 Most Jewish Foods," which spawned a book[87] [88] as well as a puzzle[89] of the same title. Also in 2018, the magazine began a line of books published with Artisan. These include The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia[90] and a Passover Haggadah with artwork by Shai Azoulay.[91]

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Notes and References

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  4. News: Zengerle . Jason . The Israeli Desert . 17 February 2024 . . 2012-06-01.
  5. News: Lyons . Kim . 2018-11-01 . Tablet Magazine's Jewish Focus Pulls Staff to Pittsburgh on a Mission . en-US . . 2022-04-15 . 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: Weiss . Michael . June 9, 2009 . Introducing Tablet Magazine . 2022-04-16 . . en.
  7. News: Carr . Austin . McCracken . Harry . 4 April 2018 . "Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic . .
  8. Web site: Plante . Chris . February 9, 2015 . A Jewish magazine is testing an unusual solution for toxic internet comments . 2022-04-16 . . en.
  9. Web site: 2015-06-04 . After Tablet started charging for the comment section, conversation moved to Facebook . 2023-04-05 . American Press Institute . en-US.
  10. Web site: Moynihan . Michael . July 30, 2012 . Jonah Lehrer’s Deceptions . December 13, 2023 . Tablet Magazine.
  11. Web site: Kearney . Christine . August 1, 2012 . Due diligence on Dylan: writer found fraud in first chapter . December 13, 2023 . Reuters.
  12. News: Lozada . Carlos . 2021-10-27 . In his new book, Jonah Lehrer expresses shame and regret about his old books . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-12-13 . 0190-8286.
  13. Web site: Bosman . Julie . 2012-07-30 . Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book . 2023-12-13 . The New York Times . en.
  14. News: Moynihan . Michael . 2013-03-01 . Publisher Pulls Jonah Lehrer’s “How We Decide” From Stores . en . The Daily Beast . 2023-12-13.
  15. News: Poole . Steven . 2015-03-05 . So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed review – Jon Ronson on rants and tweets . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-12-13 . 0261-3077.
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  18. News: Shire . Emily . Opinion: How the Women’s March made itself irrelevant . 12 August 2022 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . January 17, 2020.
  19. News: Dolsten . Josefin . A timeline of the Women's March anti-Semitism controversies . 12 August 2022 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . January 17, 2019.
  20. News: McSweeney . Leah . Siegel . Jacob . Is the Women's March Melting Down? . Tablet Magazine . December 10, 2018.
  21. News: Shugerman . Emily . The Women's March Tries to Repair the Damage. Is It Too Late? . 12 August 2022 . The Daily Beast . January 11, 2020 . en.
  22. News: Goldberg . Michelle . Michelle Goldberg . Opinion The Heartbreak of the 2019 Women's March . 12 August 2022 . The New York Times . January 18, 2019.
  23. Web site: April 2, 2021 . Educated people may actually be more antisemitic, Tablet Mag claims . 2022-04-15 . . en-US.
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  25. News: Cowell . Alan . 2022-05-31 . Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90 . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-04-16 . 0362-4331.
  26. Web site: Rhythm and Jews . Tablet.
  27. Web site: Trzcinski . Matthew . 2021-02-08 . Why Elvis Presley's Songwriters Wrote 'Jailhouse Rock' . 2023-04-16 . Showbiz Cheat Sheet . en-US.
  28. Web site: Seymour Stein, Record Company Man Who Signed the Ramones and Madonna .
  29. Web site: Friedman . Gabe . 2023-04-03 . Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80 . 2023-04-16 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
  30. News: Horn . Dara . 2013-08-29 . Articles of Faith . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-04-16 . 0362-4331.
  31. Web site: Samuels . David . September 29, 2016 . One Last Interview . June 5, 2023 . Tablet Magazine.
  32. Web site: Writer Martin Amis calls Brits "a little antiSemitic", alleges double standards on Israel . 2023-06-05 . World Jewish Congress . EN.
  33. Web site: Miller . Elhanan . February 10, 2016 . How Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Daughter, Adina Bar Shalom, Became Israel’s Leading Ultra-Orthodox Iconoclast . June 6, 2023 . Tablet Magazine.
  34. Web site: Adina Bar Shalom: Shas isn’t my father’s party anymore . 2023-06-06 . The Jerusalem Post JPost.com . en-US.
  35. Web site: Racioppi . Frank . 2023-05-23 . Actor Joshua Malina Becomes New Co-Host Of Unorthodox Podcast . 2023-11-23 . Medium . en.
  36. Web site: Lobell . Kylie Ora . 2023-06-22 . Joshua Malina to Replace Co-host Mark Oppenheimer on“Unorthodox” Podcast . 2023-11-23 . Jewish Journal . en-US.
  37. Web site: Unorthodox podcast to record live in Tidewater . 2023-11-23 . www.jewishnewsva.org.
  38. News: Pine . Dan . 2019-09-16 . N.Y. Times’ Bari Weiss takes on anti-Semitism in first book . en-US . JWeekly . 2023-11-23.
  39. Web site: Lapin . Andrew . 2021-10-01 . Why I made a podcast about Father Coughlin . 2023-11-23 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
  40. Web site: Rosenberg . Yair . 2022-09-22 . How Anti-Semitism Shaped the Ivy League as We Know It . 2023-11-23 . The Atlantic . en.
  41. Web site: October 19, 2022 . The Midterms Look Very Different if You’re Not a Democrat or a Republican . November 23, 2023 . The New York Times.
  42. Web site: Kamin . Debra . August 15, 2014 . If That NPR Guy Moved to Israel and Knew Hebrew ... . November 22, 2023 . New York Times.
  43. Web site: December 19, 2022 . Times of Israel announces partnership with podcast Israel Story . November 22, 2023 . The Times of Israel.
  44. Web site: Tablet Studios and The USC Shoah Foundation Join Forces to Launch Multimedia Collection of Testimonies from the October 7 Terrorist Attacks in Israel . 2024-02-15 . MarketWatch . EN-US.
  45. Web site: Fax . Julie Gruenbaum . 2023-12-05 . Urgent Campaign Records Eyewitness Accounts of Terror Attacks in Israel . 2024-02-15 . Jewish Journal . en-US.
  46. Web site: Nathan-Kazis . Josh . May 9, 2016 . Jeffrey Goldberg on Why His Tablet Magazine Column Never Panned Out . 2022-04-15 . . en-US.
  47. Web site: Cohen . Mari . October 6, 2022 . Jewish Studies Draws a Line on Tablet . 2022-10-06 . . en.
  48. Web site: Friedman . Matti . 2014-11-30 . What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel . 2023-12-13 . The Atlantic . en.
  49. Web site: MacDougald . Park . 2018-11-13 . Wesley Yang on Asian-Americans and the Struggle for Recognition . 2023-12-13 . New York Magazine . en.
  50. Web site: Oksman . Tahneer . 2013-07-19 . Interview: Howard Jacobson on "The Swag Man" Jewish Book Council . 2023-06-08 . www.jewishbookcouncil.org . en.
  51. Web site: 2022-11-29 . Dara Horn Center for Jewish Studies . 2023-06-08 . jewishstudies.duke.edu . en.
  52. Web site: The afterlife : Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp . 2023-06-11 . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  53. Web site: Ayelet Tsabari’s Profile . 2023-06-11 . muckrack.com . en.
  54. Web site: Osborne . Monica . 2017-05-04 . Etgar Keret's voice carries beyond Israel’s borders . 2023-06-11 . Jewish Journal . en-US.
  55. Web site: Samuels . David . March 20, 2012 . Keeper of the Flame . June 8, 2023 . Tablet Magazine.
  56. Web site: Jewish news and culture website, Tablet, launches new bi-monthly print magazine . 2023-06-08 . en-US.
  57. Web site: Publications Elisa New . 2023-06-08 . scholar.harvard.edu . en.
  58. Web site: 2017-07-13 . Bernard-Henri Lévy: "A Free Kurdistan Would Be a Potent Force for Stability and Peace" . 2023-06-08 . The Tower . en-US.
  59. Web site: 2019-01-17 . Transatlantic democracies in rift over strategy to counter Iran’s 'malign activities' . 2023-06-08 . Democracy Digest . en-US.
  60. News: Brooks . David . 2023-05-11 . Opinion The Second Phase of the Biden Presidency . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-08 . 0362-4331.
  61. Web site: 2022-02-21 . Evangeline Lilly Appeals to Justin Trudeau To "Hear From the People Sitting Out in the Cold at Your Door" . 2023-06-11 . Vanity Fair . en-US.
  62. Web site: 2017-02-05 . Playbook . 2023-06-08 . POLITICO . en.
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  64. Web site: Publications Elisa New . 2023-06-11 . scholar.harvard.edu . en.
  65. Web site: Maxim D. Shrayer . 2023-09-05 . www.tabletmag.com.
  66. Web site: 2022-12-07 . CV Maxim D. Shrayer . 2023-09-05 . www.bc.edu.
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  68. Web site: Jewish news and culture website, Tablet, launches new bi-monthly print magazine . 2023-06-11 . en-US.
  69. News: Roth . Marco . 2012-04-18 . Roland Barthes: Myths We Don’t Outgrow . en-US . The New Yorker . 2023-06-08 . 0028-792X.
  70. Web site: Holocaust . Museum of Jewish Heritage-A. Living Memorial to the . 2022-03-01 . Museum Extends Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try Exhibition Through November 2022 . 2023-06-11 . Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust . en-US.
  71. News: Tisserand . Michael . 2020-01-19 . Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Skewered Nixon and Now Trump . en . The Daily Beast . 2023-06-08.
  72. News: Tablet hires reporter who broke story of Jewish women booted from Chicago Dyke March . 17 February 2024 . . 2017-08-09.
  73. Web site: Goldberg . Jeffrey . Jeffrey Goldberg . July 19, 2012 . Tablet Magazine's Ghastly Attack on Holocaust Survivors . 2022-04-15 . . en.
  74. Web site: Beyerstein . Lindsay . July 23, 2012 . Anna Breslaw, the Holocaust, and "Breaking Bad" . 2022-04-15 . . en.
  75. Web site: Oppenheimer . Mark . October 9, 2017 . The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein . July 7, 2023 . Tablet Magazine . Tablet Magazine.
  76. Web site: Cannon . Benjy . October 11, 2017 . Weinstein's Assaults: Misogyny, Not Judaism . 2022-04-16 . . en.
  77. Web site: Matherne . Rachelle . 2010-03-22 . 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media . 2023-08-28 . SixEstate . en-US.
  78. Web site: NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR DIGITAL MEDIA WINNERS ANNOUNCED . 2023-08-28 . www.asme.media.
  79. Web site: AJPA - 2013 Competition . 2023-08-28 . www.ajpa.org.
  80. Web site: AJPA - 2022 Competition . 2023-08-28 . www.ajpa.org.
  81. Web site: December 21, 2010 . The Guide to the List . October 18, 2023 . Tablet.
  82. Web site: 2010-12-23 . What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs? 'My Mammy'? 'If I Were a Rich Man'? . 2023-10-18 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  83. Web site: Rosen . Jody . December 9, 2011 . No. 1: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial . October 18, 2023 . Tablet.
  84. Web site: Fulford . Robert . December 13, 2011 . Can E.T. be the greatest Jewish film ever made? . October 19, 2023 . National Post.
  85. Web site: September 16, 2013 . 101 Great Jewish Books: Works That Shape the Jewish Mind in America Today . October 19, 2023 . Tablet.
  86. Web site: Farrell . John . Which Of Tablet's 101 Great Jewish Books Have You Read? . 2023-10-19 . Forbes . en.
  87. Web site: Moskin . Julia . April 16, 2019 . Is Seltzer Jewish? And 99 Other Argument-Starters . October 24, 2023 . New York Times.
  88. Web site: Wall . Alix . April 9, 2019 . From brisket to huevos haminados, ‘The 100 Most Jewish Foods’ . October 24, 2023 . JWeekly.
  89. Web site: The 100 Most Jewish Foods: 500-Piece Circular Puzzle . October 24, 2023 . Barnes and Noble.
  90. Web site: Oringel . Amy . December 9, 2019 . The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between Jewish Book Council . October 24, 2023 . Jewish Book Council . en.
  91. Web site: Lipman . Steve . April 1, 2020 . Modern Plague, Ancient Story Retold . October 24, 2023 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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