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Rav Elyashiv’s Mixed LegacyTuesday, July 24, 2012 by Yoel Finkelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last Wednesday night, in the middle of a blazing heat wave, a quarter of a million people flocked to the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. At the request of the deceased, no eulogies were delivered, but for the rest of the week, the Haredi press spoke of little other than the man.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 by Len Lyons | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Long ignored or dismissed as inauthentic by the Jewish establishment, black Jews are gradually gaining wider acceptance. Crooked Timber
S.Y. Agnon wrote his first book “without pause, working for four consecutive days, from four in the morning until four in the afternoon, feeding on bread and olives, not yielding from the act of writing."Spymaster
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 by Yossi Beilin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Mubarak's former right-hand man, who died last week, was not exactly a friend of Israel, he believed in peace and had the power to maintain it.Reengaging with Gush Katif
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 by Zuri Genish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seven years after Israel's disengagement from Gaza, many of the forcibly evicted Jewish residents remain homeless, jobless, and abandoned by the State which promised to support them.Fishing for Philistines
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Goliath’s kinsmen fed on dogs and pigs, enjoyed beer, and . . . took opium? Reengaging with Gush Katif
Monday, July 23, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Time for Population Separation
Syria and Lebanon will soon be reconfigured into Sunni, Alawite, Christian, Druse, and Kurdish states—righting the wrong perpetrated by the French many decades ago.
The Queen’s JewryMonday, July 23, 2012 by Ben Elton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the history of the British monarchy, there have been only two Diamond Jubilees. Last month, Elizabeth II celebrated sixty years on the throne. In 1897 Queen Victoria marked the same milestone. To mark Victoria’s Jubilee the communal leader Lucien Wolf published an article that set out the progress that Jews had made during Victoria’s reign.