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Kosher Road Food, 18th-Century StyleWednesday, February 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Throughout Europe, inns provided separate cabinets with pots and pans for travelers observing kashrut.“I Will Not Back Down”
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by Hans Hoying and Christoph Schult | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Declaring that "the road to a political solution is blocked," Mahmoud Abbas has a "warning for the world: do not drive the Palestinians to the point of total hopelessness."Pocketbook Terrorism
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by Devin Leonard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Treating terrorists as rational actors, a new book proposes ways of putting them out of business; but are they rational actors?“Jewball”
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by Michel Martin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A film documentary about Jews in the early years of professional basketball dwells on their urban style of play.
Master of the BookTuesday, February 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Of making many books there is no end." In the hands of the master bibliographer Moritz Steinschneider, a phenomenon that induced despair in the author of Ecclesiastes was converted into great science and even greater art. Steinschneider (1816–1907) lived through the 19th century and into the early decades of the 20th. One of the founders of the academic study of Judaism before there were typewriters, let alone departments of Jewish studies, he took upon himself the gargantuan task of cataloguing the vast numbers of Hebrew and Judaic treasures, in print and manuscript, scattered throughout state, municipal, and university libraries of Europe. His output was as staggering as it was painstakingly...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by Stephanie Brickman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A once-flourishing Jewish community contemplates its decline.Words, Words, Words
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Uncovering the divergent agendas behind the recent flurry of statements and counter-statements from Damascus and Jerusalem.A Thirst for History
Monday, February 8, 2010 by Kenneth Lasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Baltimore, the hall is packed for a one-man series on the events, and the meaning, of modern Jewish experience.
ChinaMonday, February 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Quite apart from the implications of China's growing influence in the global economy, China's politics, both domestic and foreign, clash directly with Western concerns in areas from democracy to the rights of individuals and minorities to (especially when it comes to Iran's race to acquire nuclear weapons) the security of Europe and the Middle East. China is also interested in the Jews. It has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992, and Jerusalem has risked Washington's displeasure to maintain its military ties with Beijing. And China's interest extends beyond Israel, to Jewish civilization as a whole. Chinese scholars and academics seek to...
Monday, February 8, 2010 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A deceptively simple plan for a devilishly complicated problem.
