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The Disappeared CartoonsFriday, February 5, 2010 by Eddy Portnoy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American publisher's removal of images of Muhammad from a new book is part of a spreading hypocrisy: preemptive self-censorship by Western organizations and media dedicated to freedom of speech.
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.Keffiyeh Wars
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Craig Nelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
First hummus, now headscarfs: an American company aims to reclaim the Middle Eastern roots of the Jewish people.
Buses and BoundariesThursday, February 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This morning, Israel's Supreme Court reconvenes on the matter of "mehadrin" buses: public transportation in which women are expected, ostensibly on a voluntary basis, to enter from and sit in the back. The Court's hearing is in response to a decision earlier this week by the Transportation Ministry to grant formal recognition to such bus lines, several dozen of which now operate. Powerful segments of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community argue that such segregation is the only way to insure appropriate modesty (tzni'ut) between the sexes. The degree to which Haredim in general agree with this position is not entirely clear, but the...
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Gadi Taub | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A deadly alliance has formed between Westerners spouting "democracy" and Arab nationalists still bent on eliminating the Jewish state.
