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Chaim Grade’s LegacyFriday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?Ritual Art or Ritual Hype
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two events in San Francisco spark thoughts on art, fashion, and tradition.Mysteries of the Baal Shem Tov
Friday, May 21, 2010 by David Assaf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Little is known about the birth of the founder of the Hasidic movement, but much about his passing.
ArtScroll, Inc.Friday, May 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since its creation in 1976, the Orthodox publishing empire known as ArtScroll has brought out hundreds of titles: English translations of classic texts like the Bible, the siddur (prayer book), the Talmud, and others as well as self-help books, histories, biographies, fiction, and even cookbooks. All are marked by traditional scholarship, decent English, handsome and often innovative typography and graphics—and an unabashedly ultra-Orthodox (haredi) viewpoint. Advertised and marketed with acumen and zeal, ArtScroll has swept the English-speaking Orthodox world and made surprising inroads among non-Orthodox readers as well. A newly published study, Orthodox by Design, provides the first scholarly investigation of the...
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bashar Assad believes, with reason, that he can get further by negotiating with Washington than by negotiating with Israel.Israel and the OECD
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joining the club of market-economy democracies will no doubt assist Israel's development and is a welcome "seal of approval," but the country needs more internal reforms.The State of Arab States
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the twenty-two members of the Arab League, an Arab writer finds not a single representative state; actually there is one, if a fragile one.Scotland’s Jewry
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Billy Briggs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.Mentored by Gauguin
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Paris exhibit reestablishes Meijer de Haan, an energetic painter inspired by Jewish themes, as a considerable artistic force.
Israel’s Nuclear WeaponsTuesday, May 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 5, 2009, speaking before throngs of supporters in a Prague square, President Barack Obama declared America's commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. With this as an apparent impetus, the Arab world has pressed for greater international attention to . . . Israel's nuclear activities. It did so most recently at a Washington conference devoted to keeping nuclear materials out of terrorist hands, and at a subsequent review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York. Under Arab prodding, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., issued a statement calling...