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EasterThursday, April 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Around the world this weekend, Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter, the holiday marking the death and resurrection of Jesus and the culmination of the period of penitence that began with Ash Wednesday on February 17. The first bishops in Jerusalem were Jews, and so the early Christian community commemorated the Feast of the Resurrection on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, coinciding with the Jewish festival of Passover. In Temple times, the essential rite of Passover was the slaughter of a paschal lamb; the Christian Bible explicitly tied this ritual with Rome's crucifixion of Jesus:...
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's settlements, the bugbear of both the Obama administration and Pat Buchanan, account for but a fraction of jihadist rage.
Seder’s EndMonday, March 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The four cups have been drunk, the story has been told, and all have cried "Next Year in Jerusalem." Now comes the final act, one that, the late hour notwithstanding, it would be a pity to miss. The closing pages of the Haggadah, a mix of sacred hymns and humorous songs, highlight the entire narrative's arresting mix of playfulness and pedagogy, the fine line it walks between the memory of slavery and persecution and the celebration of survival and destiny. The hymns, most of them seemingly unconnected to the Seder itself, widen its angle of vision as we venture out to...
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Notably, and unlike in earlier times, America's current economic troubles are not being blamed on "the Jews."A Life with God
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jay Lefkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Judaism: A Way of Being, David Gelernter shows, in words and images, how Jewish experience echoes through and across all of Western experience.Unsplitting the (Song of the) Sea
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two long-separated fragments from a rare 8th-century Torah scroll are on dramatic display at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book.Scholar and Mentor
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Ada Rapoport-Albert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the death at niney-three of a historian, bibliographer, and influential Jewish-studies professor at Oxford and the University of London.The Sabbath World
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even to one who doesn't observe the Jewish day of rest, Judith Shulevitz's new book makes an almost irresistible case for it.From Yemen to the East End
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Jerome Taylor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dozens of the last indigenous Jews of the Arabian Peninsula have fled persecution to Britain.Persian Passover Pleasures
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Joan Nathan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For Iranian Jews in southern California, food and feasts are central to life.