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Anti-Fascist Warrior-Hairdresser
Thursday, May 10, 2012 by Tiffany Gabbay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From a Sephardic orphanage to the Haganah to the hair salon, Vidal Sassoon, who died yesterday at age 84, lived a life worth celebrating. (Read an interview with Sassoon here.)
Murder is My Business
Thursday, May 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Greenwood | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Weegee lived opposite NYPD headquarters, and slept most of the day, rising at night to pack flashbulbs into the trunk of his '38 Chevy and prowl the streets looking for bloodstained sidewalks to photograph.
The First Book Maurice Sendak Ever Illustrated
Thursday, May 10, 2012 by Peter D. Sieruta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The co-author of Atomics for the Millions asked one of his high school students if he would illustrate the volume. The student agreed to do the artwork in exchange for $100 and a passing grade.
Witnesses to the Bible?
Thursday, May 10, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two rare 3,000-year-old models of ancient shrines are among the artifacts claimed by an Israeli archeologist as evidence for the historical veracity of the Bible.
What is Jewish Dance? What is Jewish Dance?
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Walter Zev Feldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

For readers interested in the development of folk dance and, to a lesser extent, modern dance in Israel, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, edited by Judith Brin Ingber, a dance scholar who has written widely on Israeli dance, is a valuable resource.
Emor: More than Kin, and Less than Kind
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

Torah Talk with Michael Carasik Leviticus tells the priests they must avoid ritual contamination with death—unless the death is that of a close family member. But the text uses a standard Hebrew word in a very unusual way in order to issue this command. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:10:22
Nobel Nuggets
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Jay Nordlinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

There was no Nobel Peace Prize for 1939, because Germany invaded Poland on September 1. (Forty-seven years later, Henry Kissinger would write to Elie Wiesel: "I was not proud of my Nobel, but I am of yours.")
Strength in Numbers
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Simon Yisrael Feuerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What is the Yiddish saying? Nine rabbis cannot daven together, but 10 illiterate shoemakers make a minyan.
Taba via Trouble
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by Yuval Ben-Ami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Disregarding Israel's severe travel warning, one journalist ventures—with his camera—into the Sinai Peninsula. (Photographs)
What Next for Netanyahu?
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Just before his colleagues were set to vote the 18th Knesset into history, the prime minister achieved something that he and his supporters will doubtless depict as a political masterstroke. Was it?
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