Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other 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.
[7][8] 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.
[9][10][11] 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.
[22] In 2015, Tablet launched Unorthodox, a podcast about Jewish life and culture, hosted by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer who later left the show to be replaced by Joshua Malina.
[41][42] 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.
[46] Tablet's stable of contributors and contributing editors includes journalists Matti Friedman,[47] Wesley Yang,[48] and Michael C. Moynihan,[12] fiction writers Howard Jacobson,[49] Dara Horn,[50] David Bezmozgis,[51] Ayelet Tsabari,[52] Etgar Keret,[53] and Ben Marcus,[54] academics Anthony Grafton,[55] Elisa New,[56] Bernard-Henri Lévy,[57] Edward Luttwak,[58] Walter Russell Mead,[59] Norman Doidge,[60] Jacob Soll,[61] Michael Lind,[62] Natalie Zemon Davis,[63] and Maxim D. Shrayer,[64][65] novelists Marc Weitzmann,[66] and Kinky Friedman,[67] the critics Marco Roth,[68] and J. Hoberman,[69] and cartoonist Jules Feiffer.
[70] 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.
[45] 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."
[73] In October 2017, Tablet published an article by contributor Mark Oppenheimer titled "The Specifically Jewish Perviness of Harvey Weinstein".
[74] 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.
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 first presidency of Donald Trump.
[82][83] In 2013, Tablet published its list of "101 Great Jewish Books," including authors such as Betty Friedan, Sholem Aleichem, Karl Marx and Art Spiegelman.