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Scholar and Mentor
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Ada Rapoport-Albert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the death at niney-three of a historian, bibliographer, and influential Jewish-studies professor at Oxford and the University of London.
The Sabbath World
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even to one who doesn't observe the Jewish day of rest, Judith Shulevitz's new book makes an almost irresistible case for it.
Monkey Business
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A New York museum show about Curious George and the refugee Jewish couple who created him depicts the triumph of innocence and mischief—against what, we never learn.
From Yemen to the East End
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Jerome Taylor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Dozens of the last indigenous Jews of the Arabian Peninsula have fled persecution to Britain.
Persian Passover Pleasures
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Joan Nathan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For Iranian Jews in southern California, food and feasts are central to life.
Bring Menasseh’s Children Home
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A community of Indians that believes itself descended from a lost biblical tribe anxiously awaits aliyah.
The Higher Anti-Zionism
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Martin Sherman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In its shoddiness and blatant bias, The Israel-Palestine Conflict, written by a professor at UCLA and released by a prestigious publisher, underscores the bad faith permeating much academic discourse.
Passover on the Mountain
Friday, March 26, 2010 by M. K. Wankowicz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Celebrating the festival with the Samaritans in Palestine, ca. 1943.
Silent Majorities
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Hani Hazaimeh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For visiting Israel and publishing in an Israeli newspaper, a Jordanian journalist has been openly denounced—and privately applauded.
Location, Location
Thursday, March 25, 2010 by Lenny Ben-David | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Shepherd Hotel, the latest point of contention between Jerusalem and Washington, is a stone's throw from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus.