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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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Oct 31, 2024 · 54 min
What's Really Killing American Democracy, with Will Tanner
Liel is joined by writer Will Tanner to discuss the historical comparisons to the challenges faced by America
Oct 29, 2024 · 22 min
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.
Oct 23, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
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
Oct 22, 2024 · 1 hr
Re-Form: Zionism
Looking at the current state of Zionism in the Reform movement, with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch.
Oct 16, 2024 · 50 min
Talking Ta-Nehisi Coates with Karol Markowicz
Karol Markowicz joins Liel to talk about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book, The Message.
Oct 15, 2024 · 45 min
Re-Form: Interfaith Marriage
Looking at the Reform response to Jews intermarrying, with Rabbi Beau Shapiro and Rabbi Dr. Lisa D. Grant
Oct 14, 2024 · 14 min
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 1: The Illiterate Spy
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.
Oct 14, 2024 · 15 min
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 2: How to Frame a Jew
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.
Oct 14, 2024 · 13 min
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 3: Free Alfred Dreyfus
As Dreyfus wastes away on Devil’s Island, his wife and brother back in France fight for his freedom and exoneration.
Oct 14, 2024 · 13 min
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 4: Emile Zola Accuses
France's most influential writer of its time, Emile Zola , becomes the champion of the victim, even at his own, perhaps fatal expense.
Oct 14, 2024 · 19 min
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair Part 5: Plus Ça Change…
But what about France today, and the world for jews?
Oct 10, 2024 · 47 min
Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran
Oct 8, 2024 · 27 min
Re-Form: Mailbox
Josh and Rabbi Diana respond to listeners’ messages
Oct 2, 2024 · 49 min
Introducing Rootless with Liel Leibovitz
Israeli intellectual Amiad Cohen on winning wars, seizing land, and changing the reality in the Middle East
Oct 1, 2024 · 45 min
Re-Form: Inclusivity
Examining the successes of the Reform movement’s focus on inclusivity
Sep 27, 2024 · 40 min
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
Sep 26, 2024 · 34 min
Everybody Wants This
Erin Foster on her new Netflix show, ‘Nobody Wants This,’ and a trip to Hebrew University
Sep 24, 2024 · 49 min
Re-Form: Social Justice
Examining the choice to center social justice with Rabbi Sari Laufer.
Sep 19, 2024 · 27 min
Torah Challenges
Introducing the Simchat Torah Challenge, plus inside the IDF base sending Torah scrolls to battle
Sep 17, 2024 · 49 min
Re-Form: Patrilineal Descent
Unpacking the decision to recognize patrilineal descent with Rabbi Mark Washofsky