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Obama and Israel: What Now?Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since the Obama administration's major defeat in the American midterm elections, commentators have been wondering how the new constellation of forces in Washington will affect the president's Middle East peace initiative.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Philadelphia's new National Museum of American Jewish History is more preoccupied with the freedom given Jews to become Americans than with the freedom given them to remain Jews.The Merchant of Broadway
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Terry Teachout | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now on Broadway, Al Pacino's Shylock is galvanic. Even if you think he's flirting with caricature—and he is—the results are enthralling.On the Trail of a Terrorist
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Sebastian Rotella | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two years ago, Jews and Americans were targeted in a devastating terror attack in Mumbai. In the interest of maintaining good relations with Pakistan, will the U.S. permit the perpetrators to get away with it?Who Was Arafat?
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the time of his death six years ago, he was more popular in France than among his own people; Western media still regularly omit mention of his terrorist attacks.Lovable Rogue State
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Kevin Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A nineteen-year-old Canadian presented a brilliantly audacious defense of Israel—but he won't be back to the Cambridge Union any time soon.Talking Canaan
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Edward L. Greenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language related to Hebrew, solves many a biblical puzzle.The Maghreb Myth
Monday, November 15, 2010 by David Littman and Paul Fenton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Interviewing the authors of a new book on the social and legal status of the Jews of North Africa that puts paid to the myth of Jewish-Muslim coexistence.
A Jewish Renaissance?Monday, November 15, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In recent years Israel has become a vast open-air laboratory for experiments in Judaism, re-fashioning rituals, reading old texts through new lenses, scrambling and fracturing familiar dichotomies between secular and religious. Secular yeshivot, mainstream performers singing medieval Hebrew hymns, non-denominational "prayer communities" in hip Tel Aviv, kabbalistic therapy movements, Judaism festivals on once-socialist kibbutzim—something is going on here, but what?
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Dan Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York's WhiskyFest brought out "more kippahs than kilts."