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Down Kingston Way
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thousands of Jamaicans have Jewish roots, but most have long ceased to identify themselves as Jews and a community dating back 350 years is moribund.
One People, After All?
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Sharon Begley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a new scientific paper, a team of geneticists report that the Jews of the Diaspora share telltale genetic markers suggestive of a common ancestry.
Chaim Grade’s Quarrel Chaim Grade’s Quarrel
Friday, June 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Mir vet men nit maspid zeyn... No one will eulogize me... The death several weeks ago of a reclusive, elderly widow in New York has raised hopes that, at long last, scholars and lovers of Yiddish will have access to the buried treasures in her apartment. These are the legacy—manuscripts, papers, works waiting for translation—of her husband, one of the greatest Jewish writers of modern times.
Those Troublesome Jews
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Charles Krauthammer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The point of the anti-Israel campaign is to deprive the Jewish state of any legitimate form of defense, including the most passive.
Iran, Turkey, Israel
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Hassan Haidar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In their competition for regional dominance, Tehran and Ankara are separately attempting to subjugate Israel and hasten America's withdrawal from the Middle East; will they succeed?
Hypocrites, Inc.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Blockades have been used for centuries by both Britain and America, on the whole with extremely good effect.
Rallying for Israel
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Jessica Elgot | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an unusual, very public demonstration, over 700 supporters of Israel mobilized outside its London embassy in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident.
A Messianic Mystic
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Hartley Lachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Newly translated essays by the scholar Isaiah Tishby introduces one of the most fascinating personalities and important thinkers of 18th-century Italian Jewry. (PDF)
“Hook Noses, Mosaical Whiskers,” and British Theater
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Onstage caricatures of Jews in the 18th century would give way, in time, to 19th-century idealizations.
The Importance of Moshe Greenberg The Importance of Moshe Greenberg
Thursday, June 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On May 15, a giant of Jewish Bible scholarship passed away in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-one. American-born and  -educated,  Moshe Greenberg combined classical erudition in ancient Near Eastern languages and rabbinic and medieval exegesis with the critical perspectives of modern scholarship, analytical deftness, and literary style. He brought all these to bear on the ancient texts to elicit both knowledge and moral and spiritual guidance.