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Prayers and PoemsThursday, April 12, 2012 by David Yezzi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Poetry and prayer have been allied traditions from the beginning.The Life of Faith
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Timothy Dolan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews and Catholics, having experienced bigotry themselves, should cooperate to keep religious prejudice from entering the U.S. presidential campaign. (Video interview by Bob Schieffer)
The Stuttering ServantThursday, April 12, 2012 by Samuel Davidkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Stuttering, the curious speech impediment that causes a few percent of the mostly male population to succumb unpredictably and unwillingly to occasional muteness, most recently received attention with the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, the story of Britain's wartime King George VI.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"I am not even aware whether or not we have former Nazi officers in our production. Very honestly, I wouldn't even allow myself to think in those terms . . . I like to feel that the War is over." (Video; 1957)
Among the Mourners of ZionWednesday, April 11, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
We are a nation of mourners this month, collectively observing the Jewish rituals of grief in memory of . . . well, something or other. The occasion for mourning is the Omer, which began on Saturday night; the reason for mourning is more mysterious.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arnold Toynbee, says Eban, "takes the massacre of millions of our men, women and children" and "compares it to the plight of Arab refugees alive, on their kindred soil, suffering certain anguish, but of course possessed of the supreme gift of life. This equation . . . is, I think, a distortion of any historic perspective." (Video; 1958)Henry Kissinger
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"What is essential," Kissinger says, is to "have some image for the construction of the free world which is based on other motives than simply defending the world against Communism. We must make clear what we are for rather than what we are against." (Video; 1958)Mortimer Adler
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"The kind of capitalism I'm talking about is, I would think, even more revolutionary than Communism." (Video; 1958)George Jessel
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the rumor that the comedian might be appointed ambassador to Israel: "I think if they did, I'd make a very good ambassador." (Video; 1957)Israel’s Resilient Democracy
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 by Michael Oren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Founded by individuals from dissimilar, often illiberal cultures, pressed with the absorption of millions of immigrants, and confronted with the relentless threat of war, democracy in Israel is today more robust than ever.