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A Forgotten ZionistFriday, May 14, 2010 by Dalia Karpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Hebrew-language biography reintroduces Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, a fighter for Zionism on the American scene and within the Reform movement, and a model worth retrieving.
Abba KovnerFriday, May 14, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
But the writer, even in his four walls, is a public. Rupture and renewal, victimization and resistance, annihilation and rebirth: few writers voiced the hard antinomies of Jewish life and death in the 20th century as did Abba Kovner (1918-1987). The first major biography of him, by the Israeli historian Dina Porat, recently appeared in English and has won the National Jewish Book Award. Encountering Kovner in its pages makes for bracing reading.
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Parvaneh Vahidmanesh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the remnants of a once-proud community.Love Among the Relics
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Peggy Cidor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A distinguished Jerusalem museum would have remained in Canada had the collector not fallen for a tough-talking New York businesswoman with a vision.What Red Lines?
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Avinoam Bar-Yosef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like Bill Clinton before him, Barack Obama wants to know how much Israel is prepared to concede. He is unlikely to get further than his predecessor.What the Besht Left Behind
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the 250th anniversary of his death, the legacy of the founder of Hasidism deserves to be not only honored but celebrated.The Brandeis-Oren Flap
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A petition supporting the choice of Israel's ambassador as Brandeis commencement speaker has gathered four times as many student signers as an earlier petition to rescind the invitation.Keeper of the Flame
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Marissa Brostoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the death of the contentious widow of Chaim Grade, it may at last become possible for readers to have wider access to the works of the great Yiddish writer.
Jews and Khazars – Again, or NeverThursday, May 13, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The mass conversion to Judaism of the Khazars, a Turkic people from the North Caucaus, in the mid-8th century has fired imaginations for centuries. Medieval travelers told tantalizing stories of the Jewish kingdom beyond the mountains. In the 12th century, the great Spanish-Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi framed his philosophical masterpiece, The Kuzari, around this story. A very different use of the same story was made by racial theorists in the 19th century, by Arthur Koestler in the 20th century, and by the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand in the 21st. Asserting that Ashkenazi Jewry as a whole descended not from ancient Israel...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Miriam Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A stunning model of the city during the Second Temple period is on permanent outdoor exhibit at the Israel Museum.