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Pacific Coast BywaysWednesday, March 16, 2011 by Deborah Dash Moore | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Three talented historians have teamed up to write a history of West Coast Jews, from the 1840s Gold Rush to the rise of the Hollywood moguls.L’artiste Maudit
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A biography of the artist Amedeo Modigliani lacks an intimate sense of the cultural and intellectual forces that made his erratic behavior, and his achievement, possible.Tzav: Priests, Food, and God
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This week's reading, like last week's, delves into the details of the ritual sacrifices performed by the priests in the Tabernacle. These sacrifices can generally be divided into three types: olah, in which the sacrificed animal is burned entirely on the altar, reflecting a solemn commitment and deference to the divine; shlamim, which is mainly brought during personal celebrations and holidays, partly burned, and partly eaten by both the priests and the owner to express the joy of the occasion; and hatat, brought as an atonement for sin and partly burned and partly eaten by the priests but not by...
Manger’s M’gilah, and OursWednesday, March 16, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Part of the strangeness of the biblical book of Esther lies, oddly, in its very familiarity. It takes place in a world where God hardly figures, where prophecy is but a memory, where lust, vanity, and arrogance call the tunes, and where flat-out redemption is too much to hope for.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No nation has been held to so stringent a moral account as Israel, and no people to so slight an account as the Palestinians. The murder of the Fogels demands a redressing of that imbalance.Master Illustrator
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Eve M. Kahn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new, annotated edition of Arthur Szyk's Haggadah brings back a long-neglected Jewish artist.Arab Apartheid
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where is the outcry against the Arab denial of access to work, education, and lifesaving medical care to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in impoverished refugee camps?Anything but Banal
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by David Pryce-Jones | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a new account shows, Adolf Eichmann's self-portrait as an insignificant clerk, famously endorsed by Hannah Arendt and widely accepted, was contrary to the facts.
The Peace Plan Israel NeedsTuesday, March 15, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel's wobbly friends in Europe and the U.S. are renewing their pressure on Jerusalem to "do something" about the "unsustainable" stalemate in the "peace process." As German Chancellor Angela Merkel scolded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "You haven't made a single step to advance peace."
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some of the most intriguing archeological artifacts ever discovered were given to Egypt by Israel as part of the 1979 peace deal—and promptly disappeared. Have they now resurfaced?