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Only in Israel
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dan Ephron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Sayed Kashua is a bestselling novelist, satirist, and sitcom writer
Fragment of the Month
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Jim West | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Piece by ragged piece, researchers are reconstructing the long-lost Hebrew text of the apocryphal book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus).
A Tale of Two Hatreds
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite the claims of some, "Islamophobia" is not Europe's new anti-Semitism, and the pretense undermines the fight against radical Islamic terrorists.
What Light through Yonder Window Breaks?
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Eric A. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new, full-length feature film of Romeo and Juliet—in Yiddish, and made in the U.S.—is premiering this week; it is not the only recent effort of its kind.
History Repeating Itself
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Just like many villagers in the Galilee before them, a plurality of east Jerusalem Palestinians want to remain Israelis. Will they be able to?
The Long Withdrawal
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

All over the Muslim Middle East, Christians and Christianity are in fearful retreat.
Artful Dodging
Monday, January 17, 2011 by J.J. Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why does American Orthodox culture, while producing more than its fair share of lawyers and doctors, yield scarcely a single poet or painter?
News from Shushan
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The tomb of Mordecai and Esther in Iran is no longer a protected site. Will UNESCO step in?
The Chameleon
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thirty years after his death, the French-Jewish novelist Romain Gary is in the public eye—though untangling his fabrications has proved a lengthy process.     
The Martyred Thirty-Five
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Michael Pitkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"This is the story I told my daughter Ruth as the fateful year of 1948 began." Remembering friends who went to help besieged Jews in the outskirts of war-torn Jerusalem.