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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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573 episodes
Updated July 17

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Jan 14, 2025 · 33 min
Can we Forgive Our Worst Enemies? Should We? With R.R. Reno
The editor of First Things joins Liel to discuss a new Jewish-Christian statement about forgiveness
Jan 11, 2025 · 36 min
How to Be a Jew … in Los Angeles right now
As wildfires sweep America’s second largest city, Los Angeles-based Rabbi Beau Shapiro joins us to discuss how to deal with such tremendous loss and support those in need.
Jan 9, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
Will We All Soon Be Haredi? With Rabbi Gil Student
The author and thinker talks to Liel about balancing religion and the Internet, about why women shouldn’t pursue the rabbinate, and about why we may all soon turn Haredi
Jan 8, 2025 · 42 min
How to Be a Jew ... like Jesse Eisenberg
What does Jesse Eisenberg's film A Real Pain teach us about remembering?
Jan 1, 2025 · 26 min
How to Be a Jew ... on New Year's
Jews already had their own New Year’s holiday three months ago. How do we treat this more festive one?
Dec 31, 2024 · 23 min
Jewish Studies Unscrolled: “Raisins and Almonds” and Yiddish Folksong in Classical Folk Music with Alex Weiser
Alex Weiser joins us to trace the journey of “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen” from Yiddish lullaby to theatrical centerpiece to modern reinterpretations
Dec 30, 2024 · 28 min
Jewish Studies Unscrolled: American Horror and Sidney Lumet’s film The Pawnbroker (1964), with Jeremy Dauber
Jeremy Dauber joins us to explore The Pawnbroker (1964) as a rare intersection of Jewish life and horror, as Holocaust trauma rears its head on the New York City subway.
Dec 27, 2024 · 29 min
Jewish Studies Unscrolled: The Petitions of Rabbi Elijah Guttmacher, with Glenn Dynner
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.
Dec 26, 2024 · 36 min
Jewish Studies Unscrolled: Bruce Springsteen, with Rabbis Elliot Cosgrove and Neil Zuckerman
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.
Dec 26, 2024 · 31 min
Jewish Studies Unscrolled: Hostages and Nathan Hanover’s The Abyss of Despair, with Adam Teller
Adam Teller joins us to uncover how Nathan Hanover’s The Abyss of Despair reveals a remarkable 17th-century Jewish rescue network
Dec 25, 2024 · 43 min
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
Dec 19, 2024 · 58 sec
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.
Dec 19, 2024 · 23 min
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.
Dec 13, 2024 · 1 min
Coming Soon - How to Be a Jew
Coming Soon - How to Be a Jew
Dec 12, 2024 · 46 min
How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas
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
Dec 5, 2024 · 37 min
How to Change the Way We Think About Abortion, with Erica Pelman
How to Change the Way We Think About Abortion, with Erica Pelman
Nov 27, 2024 · 33 min
The Disastrous Lebanon Ceasefire Deal, with Tony Badran
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
Nov 21, 2024 · 45 min
How to Change Politically, with Dr. Sebastian Gorka
How to Change Politically, with Dr. Sebastian Gorka
Nov 14, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
The Strange Death of American Publishing with Adam Bellow
The storied book editor joins Liel to discuss how and why American publishers became partisan propagandists
Nov 7, 2024 · 39 min
What Just Happened at the Ballot? With Eli Lake and Alana Newhouse
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.