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Baptized in Jerusalem
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Judith Sudilovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the face of dwindling numbers, Israel's Hebrew-speaking Catholic community strives to nurture religious identity in its next generation.
A Monument to Themselves
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Philadelphia's new museum of American Jewish history projects a certain vision of Jewish identity: assertive, self-congratulatory, not too parochial, not too religious.
Jerusalem of Old
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Street scenes and holy sites, captured on movie film in 1918. (Video.)
With a Knife Between His Teeth
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If not for the actions taken by Meir Dagan as director of the Mossad, Iran by now might have achieved the level of uranium enrichment needed for a bomb.
We’ll Always Have Casablanca
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Norman L. Greene | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An exhibit showcasing Jewish history in Morocco is on view at New York's Center for Jewish History.
Here She Comes?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Aimee Berg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Meet Miss Massachusetts: ice-dancing champ, Harvard grad, poet—and in the running to become the first Jewish Miss America since Bess Myerson.
Occupied Territories Revisited
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Harry Kanigel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel cannot base its security arrangements on transitory political conditions in the U.S. or the Arab states. A historical, geographical, and legal primer on defensible borders. (With maps.)  
Access Iraq
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Steven Lee Myers, Stephen Farrell, and Shiho Fukada | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ancient sites inaccessible during Saddam Hussein's regime—including the tombs of biblical prophets—are once again welcoming tourists.  (With video and photos.)
Out of Africa
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

More than a thousand Africans stagger out of the desert each month, hoping to start a new life in Israel.  First, they have to brave the Sinai's Bedouin smugglers.
“A Radio Check with God”
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Foremost among Israel's new cohort of religious Zionist poets, Eliaz Cohen writes verse that is at once political and lyrical, rooted in both Arabic and the biblical core of Jewish literature.