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If Israel Goes Down, We All Go DownFriday, June 18, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The former prime minister of Spain has joined with others in Friends of Israel, a new international initiative.The Lesson of a Jewish Cemetery
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Mark Steyn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An untended burial ground in Morocco provokes a dark reverie on Jewish impermanence.
Photographic MemoryFriday, June 18, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Several months ago, an article in the New York Times revealed that a much-venerated collection of images of pre-war East European Jewry, shot in the 1930's by the photographer Roman Vishniac, constituted a tendentious slice out of a much larger and more variegated body of work. In a 1947 book and later in the 1983 album A Vanished World, Vishniac himself, it seems, selected and captioned his images in such a way as to put forward a highly sentimentalized picture, retroactively suppressing the rich human diversity of his subjects and depicting them instead as uniformly poor, pious, and persecuted.
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Marc Michael Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the illuminated ketubah and its meaning as a conveyor of obligation and responsibility, ornamented by love and trust.A Zionist Image Maker
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Dalia Karpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Starting in the 1920s, the work of the art photographer Shmuel Joseph Schweig was identified with the Jewish enterprise in Palestine and Israel.The Patriarchy: Myth or History?
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Kenneth A. Kitchen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In honor of Father's Day, June 20: an inquiry into the reliability of the biblical account.Genocide and GDP
Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Peter France and Maria Antonova | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tens of thousands of Jews were killed in southern and western Russia under the Nazis; decades later, according to a new study, the regions are still suffering the economic consequences.In the Venetian Ghetto
Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After two decades of friction, an uneasy truce prevails in Venice between Chabad and the entrenched but diminishing Jewish community.A Promising Land?
Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Ben Austen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From New Orleans and Tulsa to Meridian and Dothan, southern cities and small towns are trying to lure Jews back.Light on Ancient Israel
Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Richard Bernstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As recounted in a new book by Hershel Shanks, the creation and success of Biblical Archaeology Review opened entire swaths of ancient history to the general public.