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Conjuring SzykThursday, January 6, 2011 by Joel Schechter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new exhibit highlights the commitment to freedom of the Polish-born illustrator best known for his edition of the Passover Haggadah. (With slideshow.)
Who Needs Hebrew?Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1967, on a visit to Jerusalem, the American novelist Saul Bellow met Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel's Nobel laureate in literature. "This spare old man," Bellow would recall, "asked me if any of my books had been translated into Hebrew. If they had not been, I had better see to it immediately, because, he said, they would survive only in the Holy Tongue."
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Judith Sudilovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the face of dwindling numbers, Israel's Hebrew-speaking Catholic community strives to nurture religious identity in its next generation.The Foods of Shivah
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Dorothy Lipovenko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ten cups of wine? Eggs? Bagels? What—and why—Jews feed the bereaved. A Monument to Themselves
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Philadelphia's new museum of American Jewish history projects a certain vision of Jewish identity: assertive, self-congratulatory, not too parochial, not too religious.Jerusalem of Old
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Street scenes and holy sites, captured on movie film in 1918. (Video.)With a Knife Between His Teeth
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If not for the actions taken by Meir Dagan as director of the Mossad, Iran by now might have achieved the level of uranium enrichment needed for a bomb.We’ll Always Have Casablanca
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Norman L. Greene | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exhibit showcasing Jewish history in Morocco is on view at New York's Center for Jewish History.Here She Comes?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Aimee Berg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Meet Miss Massachusetts: ice-dancing champ, Harvard grad, poet—and in the running to become the first Jewish Miss America since Bess Myerson.
Under FireWednesday, January 5, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The second Lebanon war in the summer of 2006 forced Israelis to come to grips with the definitive end of the Oslo era and the shattering of two fundamental assumptions about the nature of their conflict with the Palestinians.