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The Christmas Eve BallTuesday, December 28, 2010 by Marshall Heyman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story behind the Matzo Ball, an annual Jewish singles' dance credited with over 1,000 marriages (and a few divorces).Whom has Holocaust Education Educated?
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Sam Schulman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Far from denying the Holocaust, the anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic Left has fetishized it, seizing upon its supposed "lessons" as a weapon to vilify Israel and the West.Books and Their Fates
Monday, December 27, 2010 by David Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What will happen to the world's most important private collection of Jewish manuscripts and books now that it has been sold to an unknown buyer?A Great Thaw
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across the expanses of Siberia, Jewish communities are experiencing a rebirth after the deep freeze of Soviet rule.Where Time Ends
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Matthew Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Megiddo—Armageddon—will a new archeological project enable scholars to synchronize the clocks of the ancient world and create the first definitive calendar of human history?Shabbat Upgrade
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Shoshana Chen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "kosher lamp" is only one of a series of mass-marketed technological innovations for Sabbath-observant homes.

Monday, December 27, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Are ethics and law at odds? Does the law define what is ethical, or do ethical concerns have their own purchase on the law? These questions, universally applicable, have special relevance to a religious culture like Judaism, whose traditional law is embodied in the vast corpus of halakhah.
Friday, December 24, 2010 by Jennifer Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Netanyahu's request for the release of the imprisoned spy after 25 years has riled critics of Israel; but it's only a request, and some in Congress say the life sentence is unjust.Truth, Lies, and the Holocaust Novel
Friday, December 24, 2010 by Jerome Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin addresses the question of whether, and how, to make literature out of the destruction of European JewryHerzl and the Rabbis
Friday, December 24, 2010 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Israel, a "wall of separation" between religion and state is not a realistic option—but a price should be imposed on religious officials who contravene the law and infringe the rights of their fellow citizens.