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The Cookbook CollectorTuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dorothy Lipovenko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rabbi Robert Sternberg, a dedicated aficionado of culinary literature, knows not only what kosher ingredient to substitute for oysters but the cultural back-story of many a Jewish recipe.Amigos?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by D.S. Mariaschin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Twenty-five years after Spain and Israel established diplomatic ties, the relationship has landed on rocky terrain.Only in Israel
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dan Ephron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sayed Kashua is a bestselling novelist, satirist, and sitcom writer
Where Have All the Prophets Gone?Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Writing in 1911, Martin Buber declared that "the nature of the prophets" lives within the Jewish people. A hundred years later, do any Jews still believe this?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Jim West | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Piece by ragged piece, researchers are reconstructing the long-lost Hebrew text of the apocryphal book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus).
Science, Faith, and Biblical ArcheologyMonday, January 17, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Biblical archeology was born out of twinned desires: to "illuminate" the world of the Bible and, ultimately, to prove the truth of the Word.
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
All over the Muslim Middle East, Christians and Christianity are in fearful retreat.Artful Dodging
Monday, January 17, 2011 by J.J. Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does American Orthodox culture, while producing more than its fair share of lawyers and doctors, yield scarcely a single poet or painter?A Tale of Two Hatreds
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite the claims of some, "Islamophobia" is not Europe's new anti-Semitism, and the pretense undermines the fight against radical Islamic terrorists.What Light through Yonder Window Breaks?
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Eric A. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new, full-length feature film of Romeo and Juliet—in Yiddish, and made in the U.S.—is premiering this week; it is not the only recent effort of its kind.
