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It Ain’t Necessarily SoThursday, April 7, 2011 by Yair Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Textual disparities between the traditional Jewish Bible and the Samaritan Bible, which dates back to the Second Temple period, may reflect the process of editing.The Taste of Jewish Life
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Marjorie Ingall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What does Hadassah's archive of cookbooks tell us about the interplay between Jewishness and American identity from the 1920s to today?

Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The downfall of Moshe Katsav, the former president of Israel recently convicted and sentenced on a rape charge, is a many-sided episode—involving his crimes, the media circus around the judicial proceedings against him, and the private and public meanings of his disgrace.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As rioting Muslims murdered dozens of UN relief workers in Afghanistan, the (London) Times saw fit to repudiate criticisms of Islam voiced in its own pages by the redoubtable Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The House of Dreams
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Najem Wali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When Iraqis remember their country's first minister of finance, a Jew named Sassoon Eskell (1860-1932), they still say, "God bless his memory."A Tough Assignment
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Philissa Cramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why can't Israel's chaotic education system implement the desperately-needed reforms urged by New York City's former schools chancellor?Master Narratives
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Moshe Rosman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Distilling generations of Jewish historical writing, a scholar locates what has endured—and why—and enjoins his peers to produce work that will itself endure.Damage Done
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Michael Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Richard Goldstone's mea culpa can be welcomed for its better-late-than-never candor, but the damage his notorious report has caused Israel cannot be exaggerated or undone.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 2007, two years before he killed thirteen people and wounded twenty-nine at Fort Hood, Texas, Nidal Malik Hasan prepared a slide show for his fellow Army doctors on the subject of Islam. One of his last points read: "We love death more than you love life!"
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Ralph Gardner Jr. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to Michael Tilson Thomas's rehearsal of a multimedia tribute to his grandparents, the Yiddish theater greats Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky.