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The Last Berber JewsFriday, August 10, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As a child, the French filmmaker Kamal Hachkar learned the Berber language from his grandparents in Tinghir, a Berber oasis city east of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. As an adult he discovered that the now exclusively Muslim town once had a substantial Jewish community.
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Isabel Kershner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With Syria entrenched in civil war, tensions are rising in the Syrian Druse villages on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, as opponents of Assad square up against loyalists.All About the Benjamins
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Brían Hanrahan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sustained financially by his friend Gershom Scholem for much of his life, the revolutionary Marxist Walter Benjamin has posthumously become a commercial success.Israel’s New Academic Diversity
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Dror Eydar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The opposition of Israel’s academic establishment to Ariel University is less about its location than the fact that Ariel threatens the Left’s hegemony over higher education.The Visionary
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Joshua Runyan and Tamar Runyan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The true scope of businessman and philanthropist Sami Rohr’s charity is still not fully known, and perhaps may never be.eShabbat?
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Daniel Nevins | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“I understand melakhah to be about transforming material. [An e-reader] tracks usage . . . and therefore involves a transformation of material reality.” (Interview by Jason Miller)