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Extreme MakeoverMonday, June 21, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel may pay the price of Washington's pursuit of "moderate elements" within Hizballah and other extremist groups.Before Mao
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Matt Nesvisky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to Harbin in China recalls a briefly vibrant Jewish community with a strong Zionist heritage that by the mid-1920s numbered 25,000 souls.Cairo’s Election Omen
Monday, June 21, 2010 by J. Scott Carpenter and Dina Guirguis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Voting for Egypt's upper house was marred by low turnout, fraud, and violence: a portent of next year's presidential election?Not of This World
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
First he read ardently from Israel's Declaration of Independence and Psalm 137; then the pianist Evgeny Kissin played a fiery Chopin Scherzo and accepted an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University.If Israel Goes Down, We All Go Down
Friday, 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.