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UnearthedFriday, March 11, 2011 by ChaeRan Freeze | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In advance of the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, a Brandeis exhibit features the work of a painter who defied the Soviet regime by depicting its victims as the Jews they were. (With images)Hail
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Miri Freud-Kandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A book-length assessment of Britain's current chief rabbi leads to the question of whether the office he holds should be abolished.
Purim PuzzlesFriday, March 11, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Purim, Judaism's strangest holiday (which this year falls on March 20), is prescribed by what may be the strangest book in the Hebrew Bible, the scroll (m'gilah) of Esther. Two public readings of the book, one at night and the other in the morning, tell a story of Persian palace intrigue in the fifth century B.C.E., a recitation accompanied by the holiday's decidedly unspiritual noisemaking, tippling, and masquerade.
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A powerful political divide separates Jews in Israel and in the United States—but the underlying issue isn't who's in power in Jerusalem, it's who's in power in Washington.Egypt’s Choice
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by David Makovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to peace with Israel, Egypt's leaders will have to navigate between populist antagonism to the Jewish state and the Egyptian national interest.Norman Podhoretz and I
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While grateful for my friendships with Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, I was looking for a champion—both of America and of the Jews. Eventually I found him. (Part three of a three-part series.)Lost and Found
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Sam Dolnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than a thousand works of Jewish scholarship missing from a German collection have turned up at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
Identity = ?Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In discussions of that elusive entity known as "Jewishness," few terms have become so ubiquitous, and as a consequence so elusive, as "Jewish identity." The phrase regularly serves as the name of a communal dream: the wished-for end product that vast apparatuses of education, institution-building, and programming aim to instill and perpetuate. But what is it?
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by José Ramos-Horta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At this point in time, writes the president of East Timor, the West Bank is an oasis of economic progress and tranquility in a region of turmoil.Talmud for Beginners
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A now-completed translation of the Talmud into modern Hebrew (and, partially, into English) has made a notoriously difficult text accessible to the Jewish layman.
