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The Jewish “Cosby Show”Monday, February 8, 2010 by Jim Slotek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new documentary film tells the story of a wildly successful sitcom that marked a minority's entry into mainstream culture.Morality in the War against Terrorism
Monday, February 8, 2010 by Asa Kasher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ethical principles developed by Israel apply broadly, and should be incorporated into international law.A Thirst for History
Monday, February 8, 2010 by Kenneth Lasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Baltimore, the hall is packed for a one-man series on the events, and the meaning, of modern Jewish experience.
Talking PicturesFriday, February 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ever since Art Spiegelman's landmark Maus (1986), comics and graphic novels have established themselves as a new form of visual-cum-verbal midrash. The best of them, re-imagining texts and the events of history, point beyond themselves. If Spiegelman paid tribute to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust, the hero of Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat is witness to the vanished Jewish culture of Algiers. Other cartoonists have tackled the text of the Bible, as eloquent as it is famously laconic. R. Crumb (of Fritz the Cat) has recently published his take on the Book of Genesis, rendered in his trademark mix of burlesque, Blake, and...
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On Mount Gerizim, Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, spiritual leader of the Samaritans, is buried by his grieving community.England’s Gifts to Anti-Semitism
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Anthony Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A prominent British lawyer (and literary critic) offers a preview of his newest book.Sufficient Victory?
Friday, February 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A blogger at King's College, London ponders the lessons of a recent conference on the Lebanon and Gaza wars.Ezra Stiles and the Jews
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Yitzchok Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The early American Hebraist and president of Yale became fascinated by a visiting Sephardi rabbi.A Barometer of Intolerance
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Benjamin Balint | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The persecution of Egypt's ancient Christian minority is another sign of a society becoming less Arab and more Islamic.Shedding Illusions
Friday, February 5, 2010 by Peter Berkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the annual Herzliya conference, Salaam Fayyad and Benjamin Netanyahu were each impressive in what they said, sobering in what they omitted.