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Triple PlayFriday, August 27, 2010 by Tarek Heggy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Egypt, like the rest of the Arab world, has many problems, of which the three most immediate are identity, education, and democracy.
It Sounds Better in AmharicThursday, August 26, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his one-man play, It Sounds Better in Amharic, the Ethiopian-born Israeli actor Yossi Vassa humorously contrasts life in the old world and the new, mulling over the differences between traditional and modern ways of dating and the respective virtues of traveling by donkey or Lamborghini. He also narrates his family's 400-mile journey from Ethiopia to Sudan—from where, in 1984, the Israeli air force flew 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Vassa's family covered the 400 miles on foot, in three months. "Not to brag," he comments, "but it took the children of Israel 40 years."
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yes, there is a powerful lobby that distorts American foreign policy in the Middle East; but the Israel lobby isn't it.Unwilling and Unable
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like Arafat before him, Mahmoud Abbas does not accept Israel's right to exist and is committed to its eventual destruction. How can such a man deliver peace?Jews Formerly for Obama
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Ed Lasky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jewish voters are leaving the Democratic party, and some are, it's not, or not only, because of their concern for Israel.Was Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav the Messiah?
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Justin Jaron Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some of his followers may have thought so, but a newly translated "secret" scroll fails to cast much light on the issue.Closing the Books
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The only secular Yiddish bookstore in New York is losing its home.Sin City
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was the destruction of Pompeii an act of divine retribution?Ki Tavo: The Mystery of Goodness
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
By David Hazony Nearing the end of his farewell address to the Israelites, Moses describes a peculiar ceremony they are to perform after entering Canaan.Beyond the Age of Ideology
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Steven M. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Engaged young American Jews are significantly more interested in culture, social justice, and Jewish learning than in external threats to Jews, Judaism, or Israel.