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Scholar and MentorMonday, March 29, 2010 by Ada Rapoport-Albert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the death at niney-three of a historian, bibliographer, and influential Jewish-studies professor at Oxford and the University of London.The Sabbath World
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even to one who doesn't observe the Jewish day of rest, Judith Shulevitz's new book makes an almost irresistible case for it.
Seder’s EndMonday, March 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The four cups have been drunk, the story has been told, and all have cried "Next Year in Jerusalem." Now comes the final act, one that, the late hour notwithstanding, it would be a pity to miss. The closing pages of the Haggadah, a mix of sacred hymns and humorous songs, highlight the entire narrative's arresting mix of playfulness and pedagogy, the fine line it walks between the memory of slavery and persecution and the celebration of survival and destiny. The hymns, most of them seemingly unconnected to the Seder itself, widen its angle of vision as we venture out to...
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Notably, and unlike in earlier times, America's current economic troubles are not being blamed on "the Jews."Silent Majorities
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Hani Hazaimeh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For visiting Israel and publishing in an Israeli newspaper, a Jordanian journalist has been openly denounced—and privately applauded.Monkey Business
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A New York museum show about Curious George and the refugee Jewish couple who created him depicts the triumph of innocence and mischief—against what, we never learn.From Yemen to the East End
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Jerome Taylor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dozens of the last indigenous Jews of the Arabian Peninsula have fled persecution to Britain.Persian Passover Pleasures
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Joan Nathan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For Iranian Jews in southern California, food and feasts are central to life.
HaggadahFriday, March 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It is hard to think of another classic Jewish text reprinted, rewritten, and re-imagined as often, or as divergently, as the Haggadah. The Passover Seder is the most ubiquitous Jewish observance—fully three-quarters of American Jews participate in a Seder of some kind, as do 80–95 percent of Israelis. The abundance of Haggadot, in other words, reflects the ubiquity of the observance. Of course, the Haggadah has long been a mirror of Jewish history. Once its text had stabilized by the dawn of the Middle Ages, it became the object of lavish and continuing attention on the part of commentators, illuminators, illustrators,...
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A community of Indians that believes itself descended from a lost biblical tribe anxiously awaits aliyah.
