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Kosher Allure
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why are small rural colleges—even those without large Jewish enrollments—building elaborate Hillel houses with kosher cafes?
Sticking to the Script
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Like almost every other movie about "the conflict," the new documentary Budrus misrepresents the essential facts—the better to gain money, critical acclaim, and festival screenings.
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Mark Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Almost fifty years on, the recordings of the comic singer Allan Sherman, unlikely mass hits of the early 1960s, continue to sell and sell.
The Chabad Paradox
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Abraham Socher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By the one standard that it has set itself, what is possibly the most successful Jewish religious movement of the late 20th century has failed. (From the Fall issue, out this week.)
Missing in Academic Action
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Or Kashti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the study of Hebrew literature is in drastic decline, and so is the study of the humanities in general.
Dishonorable
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry and Tom Tugend | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In awarding an honorary Oscar to the French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Hollywood's Motion Picture Academy will be celebrating a notoriously vocal anti-Semite.
Sigd!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Greer Fay Cashman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Operation Moses, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday is celebrated by a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Young Blood
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The American Jewish community hardly suffers from a dearth of younger leaders; but where do they mean to lead it? A new report. (PDF)
A Tale of Two Galloways
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Reconstructing the true authorship and subsequent history of the famous assertion, made in 1952, that the Arab states have exploited the Palestinian refugees as a tool against Israel.
Patriarchy Rampant
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jill Hamilton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Whatever complaints Israeli Jews have about the chief rabbinate's grip on marriage and family law, Christians all over the Middle East have it worse.