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It’s All Happening at the ZooMonday, January 7, 2013 by D. G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Howard Jacobson's latest novel, Zoo Time, is not immediately recognizable as Jewish fiction; but Jacobson again portrays the fear, uncertainty, and ambivalence that characterize the modern Jew.
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before Chavez’s assumption of power in 1999, Venezuela had no tradition of anti-Semitism. But his relentless attacks on Jews have driven over 20,000 of them to leave.By The Sweat of Thy Brow Shall Ye Live
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By not working and living at the taxpayers' expense, Israel's haredi men flout their marriage contracts, the Rabbis, and a basic premise of civil society.Israel’s Second Joseph
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Liel Leibovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Placed in charge of rationing food in the nascent State of Israel, Dov Yosef was widely hated and readily forgotten. But no one went hungry.Love Makes the Melody Immortal!
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Inbal Freund-Novick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent concert in Berlin, featuring cantors and choirs from across Europe, has brought the music of Louis Lewandowski back home.Workers’ Rights
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Jewish law does not require an employer to offer severance pay to a dismissed employee, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein enshrined it as an American Jewish custom.