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Kissing CognatesTuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jerome Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How Akkadian, the cuneiform language of a third-millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian dynasty, sheds fascinating light on the Hebrew Bible.The Tolerance Police
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Abe Greenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For some supporters of the planned mosque at Ground Zero, preaching tolerance is just another way of impugning the arguments of opponents they cannot tolerate.A Film Unfinished
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Gary Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.City of Refuge
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Masada Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to the former Jewish areas of Shanghai, where thousands of refugees from Nazism found shelter.No Census Consensus
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Carl Bialik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Census figures for American Muslims are inherently faulty; so, for different reasons, are the figures for American Jews.
Limited PartnershipMonday, August 16, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Celebrating its Independence Day on August 15, the nation of India marked 63 years since the end of British rule in the sub-continent. In light of the two countries' more or less contemporaneous struggle for self-determination in the immediate aftermath of World War II, one might have thought that India would establish close ties with the newly born state of Israel straightaway. It did not happen.
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Meyer Schapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where the artists borrowed from others, and where they were original and distinctive: a 1968 talk by a pre-eminent art historian. (PDF; Schapiro comments begin on page 6.)Making the Middle East Less Important
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Michael Mandelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No available policy can make the region safe for the U.S. and the world; better to act so as to make the world safe from the region's pathologies.My Summer in Israel
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Ahmed Moustafa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?
The New Israel MuseumFriday, August 13, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
An expanded and revamped Israel Museum re-opened to the public in late July after three years of renovations. While the modest architecture remains as it was, the modernist cubes rolling with the Jerusalem landscape, the jumble of buildings has been streamlined: 25,000 square feet of exhibition space have been added, but the number of items on display has been reduced by a third. Overall, the design is significantly more user-friendly, with a spacious new entrance hall leading to the museum's remarkable collections, including its three most significant wings: archeology, Jewish art and life, and fine art.
