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Before MaoMonday, June 21, 2010 by Matt Nesvisky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to Harbin in China recalls a briefly vibrant Jewish community with a strong Zionist heritage that by the mid-1920s numbered 25,000 souls.Cairo’s Election Omen
Monday, June 21, 2010 by J. Scott Carpenter and Dina Guirguis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Voting for Egypt's upper house was marred by low turnout, fraud, and violence: a portent of next year's presidential election?Not of This World
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
First he read ardently from Israel's Declaration of Independence and Psalm 137; then the pianist Evgeny Kissin played a fiery Chopin Scherzo and accepted an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University.Pioneer to the Past
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Lee Lawrence | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
James Henry Breasted's role in reshaping our understanding of the ancient Near East is illuminated in an exhibit at the University of Chicago.If Israel Goes Down, We All Go Down
Friday, June 18, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The former prime minister of Spain has joined with others in Friends of Israel, a new international initiative.The Lesson of a Jewish Cemetery
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Mark Steyn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An untended burial ground in Morocco provokes a dark reverie on Jewish impermanence.
Photographic MemoryFriday, June 18, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Several months ago, an article in the New York Times revealed that a much-venerated collection of images of pre-war East European Jewry, shot in the 1930's by the photographer Roman Vishniac, constituted a tendentious slice out of a much larger and more variegated body of work. In a 1947 book and later in the 1983 album A Vanished World, Vishniac himself, it seems, selected and captioned his images in such a way as to put forward a highly sentimentalized picture, retroactively suppressing the rich human diversity of his subjects and depicting them instead as uniformly poor, pious, and persecuted.
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Marc Michael Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the illuminated ketubah and its meaning as a conveyor of obligation and responsibility, ornamented by love and trust.A Zionist Image Maker
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Dalia Karpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Starting in the 1920s, the work of the art photographer Shmuel Joseph Schweig was identified with the Jewish enterprise in Palestine and Israel.The Patriarchy: Myth or History?
Friday, June 18, 2010 by Kenneth A. Kitchen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In honor of Father's Day, June 20: an inquiry into the reliability of the biblical account.
