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  • The BabagaNewz value for Nisan/April is shalshelet hamesorah, chain of tradition, an appropriate value for the weeks before Pesach. Readers will meet archaeologist Eilat Mazar, who successfully uncovered King David’s Palace in Jerusalem, a fascinating link to our past. This month’s spotlight is on Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, a program that helps people interview family and friends to record their stories for future generations. In addition, there are some great Pesach resources at BabagaNewz.com. Pesach Central is full of entertaining content for students and families, including a new feature: The World's Most Unusual Seder Customs. These bizarre Pesach practices will be the talk of your family's seder! Visit the jPod to explore our collection of Pesach tunes from great musicians, including Debbie Friedman and Craig Taubman.

  • The March/April Hope Issue of JVibe is almost here, featuring a very special double Shmoozin' with Bryan Greenberg AND Josh Peck. We've also got the winners of the 3rd annual JVibe Music Awards, plus three great features on college decision time, finding hope after a fatal car accident, and in the Roundtable, teens tell us why they think it's OK to question faith in God. This month, meet some very cool Jews on JVibe.com—everyone from bikers and musicians to writers and teens involved in social action! Plus read the latest from our three Young Judaea Year Coursers who are scattered across Israel.

  • This month, Sh'ma explores the Neoconservative current in American political and intellectual life, one with significant implications and one that is only understood if all its many, complex ramifications are taken into account. At no time since the rise of the New York Jewish Intellectuals in the 1940s and ‘50s have Jewish voices played as central a role in American political and cultural life. Talk about Jews and Neoconservatives is divisive, often explosive; their impact is often seen as deleterious and dangerously influential especially with regard to the onset of the Iraqi War. Sh'ma examines the issue; Benjamin Balint explores the history of Conservatives, Peter Berkowitz asks “Is NeoConservatism Jewish?”, Ruth Wisse & Seth Lipsky have an open exchange on Jews, conservatism, and the future, and a reflection by David Teutsch.
  • The latest, just-published edition of JBooks is awesome; it's all about short fiction. We have an essay by Jonathan Safran Foer on Brunz Schulz's classic The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Sandy Pinsker's punchy interview with Cynthia Ozick, a superlative review of John Clayton's collected stories, and a very provocative interview with teacher/writer Binnie Kirshenbaum (don't let the "Binnie" fool you: she's tough as hell). Also, be sure to visit Secular Culture & Ideas for an array of Passover content. SCI explores the meaning of Pesach for secular Jews, what the themes of liberation and freedom mean in a modern context, and, on a perhaps lighter note, the changing culinary traditions of the holiday.

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