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From Yemen to the East EndFriday, 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.The Higher Anti-Zionism
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Martin Sherman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In its shoddiness and blatant bias, The Israel-Palestine Conflict, written by a professor at UCLA and released by a prestigious publisher, underscores the bad faith permeating much academic discourse.Passover on the Mountain
Friday, March 26, 2010 by M. K. Wankowicz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Celebrating the festival with the Samaritans in Palestine, ca. 1943.
Thoroughly Modern MatzahThursday, March 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When Jews the world over sit down next week to mark the birth of Jewish history, matzah will figure prominently at the table. Matzah baking is an exacting task; according to traditional law, the entire process, from first kneading to exit from the oven, must be accomplished in 18 minutes flat, with not a speck of leaven in sight. For thousands of years, these specifications and others were laboriously met by hand. Yet this most ancient food has a modern history, too. The first matzah machine was invented in 1838 in France. With rabbinic approval, the technology moved steadily eastward. The...
Thursday, March 25, 2010 by Lenny Ben-David | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shepherd Hotel, the latest point of contention between Jerusalem and Washington, is a stone's throw from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus.Professor Nasser-Abu Alhija
Thursday, March 25, 2010 by Or Kashti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a first, an Israeli Arab woman joins the 33 Israeli Arab men holding full professorships in the country's research universities.The Rise and Fall of an American Jewish Community
Thursday, March 25, 2010 by Jason Maoz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the middle of the 20th century, the Jews of Newark, New Jersey had numbers, institutions, and history on their side; desolation awaited.
