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Shakespeare, Much Improved?Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Nahma Sandrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the few things people think they know about Yiddish theater in America is that once upon a time there was a production, probably of King Lear, advertised as "translated and much improved." Joel Berkowitz's history, Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (2002), quotes the line but never gives an attribution, which suggests that nobody ever actually said it. But someone might have.
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Nicolas Rapold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jack Garfein survived Bergen-Belsen to become a monumental figure of the American theater and make two filmsThe Arab Revolutions: an Israeli Perspective
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Ehud Yaari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A degree of anti-Israel sentiment has slowly mixed into the overwhelmingly domestic agendas of Arab protesters. Herewith, a guide to the severe tests lying ahead.The Faith of Women
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Richard Sarason | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Spurred by an interview with a grieving Israeli mother, a scholar has anthologized an impressive range of personal prayers written by and for Jewish women.A Livorno Tongue
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Adam Smulevich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Bagitto is still spoken today, and you can buy a "roschette" in any Livorno pastry shop, studying the Judeo-Italian dialect is no easy task.The Church of Israel Divestment
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Mark Tooley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as the American religious Left has kept relatively silent about Muammar Qaddafi's war against his own Libyan people, it continues to promote anti-Israel initiatives.
The Fate of Muslim ModeratesMonday, March 21, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent uprisings in the Middle East seemed, at least at first, to send a reassuring signal to Western observers: not only did genuinely moderate Muslims exist, and not only were they capable of finding a political voice, but there was reason to hope that, given time to organize and grow in strength, they might succeed in winning out against the voices of repression and Islamist extremism.
Friday, March 18, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unlike their leaders, and unreported in the media, ordinary West Bank Palestinians have condemned the murders in Itamar unequivocally, in Arabic and Hebrew, in front of the camera. Can this lead somewhere hopeful?
Halakhah for AmericansFriday, March 18, 2011 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Asked in a 1975 New York Times interview how he had acquired his standing as America's most trusted authority in Jewish religious law (halakhah), Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986) replied: ''If people see that one answer is good and another answer is good, gradually you will be accepted."
Friday, March 18, 2011 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran's recent attempt to ship arms to Hamas in Gaza is an act that fully justifies an Israeli armed response.