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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?
Absolute Cowards
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."
You Say You Want a Revolution
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Don Seeman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The fall of Middle East tyrants should be celebrated, but it is hard to be euphoric when so much of the future remains unclear and so much of the past is littered with wreckage.
Balkan Kabbalah
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Jacob Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new novel by the Serbian Jewish writer David Albahari is a passionate exploration of Balkan Jewish identity from the Ottoman era to the present.
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.
Hitting the Tea Kettle
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.
A Two-Way Street?
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna and Jay Ruderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

American Jews are becoming more informed about Israel; it's time for Israelis to learn more about American Jews.