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Mattot: The Wrong Side of the RiverWednesday, July 20, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
by Michael Carasik "The farmer and the cowman should be friends," advises the song, but they generally aren't. This week's portion suggests this was the case even in ancient Israel. Earlier in the book of Numbers we have seen challenges to the leadership of Moses, from Korah and even from his own siblings, Miriam and Aaron. Now, a rift that goes right through the people is exposed.
The Good FenceWednesday, July 20, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Just about anything that makes Israel more secure is opposed by someone: either by its enemies and their enablers, or by its fair-weather friends in the international arena, or by dissident elements within the Jewish community—and sometimes by all three. A case in point is Israel's West Bank security barrier.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jerusalem has invited construction bids on 336 housing units in two communities destined to remain part of Israel. The PA's response shows why peace negotiations are nowhere in sight.
Meet Sholem AleichemTuesday, July 19, 2011 by Nahma Sandrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the 1880's, the Ukrainian Jew Solomon Rabinowitz began his literary career under an assumed name—assumed because he was writing in Yiddish, rather than a respectable language such as Hebrew or Russian. The pseudonym he chose was Sholem Aleichem.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Eugene Kontorovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Denunciations of Israel's new anti-boycott law are wrong in principle and hold the Jewish state to a standard never applied to, or employed by, other nations.The Problem with Peoplehood
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Daniel Septimus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Lately a communal obsession, and an important Jewish idea, "peoplehood" is not the only important idea. Nor, when detached from issues of content, purpose, and mission, is it even a meaningful one.Will Israel Endure?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Roger Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new French book painstakingly demonstrates the Jewish claim to Israel on the basis of historical, linguistic, legal, and genetic evidence, even as it asks: why is this still an issue?The Voice
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Katie Schneider | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before becoming the voice of Bugs Bunny and 400 other characters, Mel Blanc was a Jewish boy doing impressions of his immigrant neighbors in Portland, Oregon.The Agony of Greek Jews
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Aristotle Kallis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A much-needed history of the Nazi destruction of the Greek Jewish community impressively records, as well, ongoing postwar efforts to sustain the remnants of collective existence.How Not to Have a Palestinian State
Monday, July 18, 2011 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Fatah-Hamas rush to declare statehood will impede the formation of civil society on the West Bank and is just another device to delegitimize the state of Israel.