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Why Rachel’s Tomb Matters Why Rachel’s Tomb Matters
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

All cultures build on what came before them. But how they treat the past is a measure of cultures in the present. The treatment by Muslims of Rachel's tomb, lately much in the news, is a case in point.
Where the World Sits on the Fence
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's fulfillment of a UN agreement to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border town of Ghajar will create 2,000 stateless refugees; no human-rights organizations are coming to defend them.
A Greek Gift
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Michelle Michalos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Tucked away on New York's Lower East Side, the last Greek synagogue in the Western hemisphere remains a gathering place for Romaniote Jews, a group distinct from both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. (With video.)
Now City
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the issue of war and peace out of their hands, Tel Avivians keep on living and building—as their parents and grandparents have done, under similarly perilous conditions, for 100 years.
Howard’s End
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Leslie Howard, the British Jewish actor most famous for his role in Gone with the Wind, was also a fearless anti-Fascist crusader.
Projection Theory
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Raymond Ibrahim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Islamist descriptions of Jews and Israel more nearly describe the worst characteristics of radical Islam.
Summoned Home Summoned Home
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein (a/k/a Yankev Glatshteyn, 1896-1971) received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. At the precise moment when so many Jews were desperately trying to make the reverse journey, Glatstein found himself on an unanticipated and almost certainly unwanted return home.
The Melancholy Dane
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hamlet's soliloquy in Hebrew: a few early attempts.
The Forgotten Exodus?
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Shmuel Trigano | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries between 1920 and 1970 form, along with their descendants, the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel's population.
“More Holes than Cheese”
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Benny Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To embark on negotiations with the Palestinians without recognition of Israel as the Jewish state is to repeat the fatal error of the Oslo agreement.
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