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Sephardi SirenTuesday, August 31, 2010 by Rahel Musleah | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yasmin Levy, whose music is like a "deep pool of exquisite yearning and heartbreak," is the international voice—and face—of Ladino song.
Arab Moderates: Help, or Hindrance?Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At the re-launching of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, attention will be focused on Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu. But Egypt's ailing president, Hosni Mubarak, will also be in attendance, as will Jordan's King Abdullah II. To maintain their bona fides as Arab moderates, the two men helped cajole Abbas to resume face-to-face negotiations with Israel. So did other Arab states in the U.S. orbit, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates.
World Jewish CongressMonday, August 30, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a show of solidarity with Israel, leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will be gathering in Jerusalem at the end of the month. Not to be confused with the American Jewish Congress, of which it was originally an outgrowth, or the World Zionist Congress, founded by Theodor Herzl, the WJC is an umbrella group of Diaspora organizations (including the European Jewish Congress, the Latin American Jewish Congress, and others) that defines itself somewhat grandly as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." If you haven't heard of it, there's a reason.
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Elizabeth Weingarten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iranian Jews in America straddle at least three different societies and identities; still, they build their homes of brick, to last.Greek Justice
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Richard Ayoun | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Those arrested in the devastating double arson of an exquisitely restored 16th-century Cretan synagogue will evidently not face trial; a pattern is at work here. (Scroll down for English text.)Does Halakhah Change?
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Francis Nataf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Innovation in Jewish religious law is natural; but, as a new book suggests, everything depends on the context and the circumstances.Through a Warped Lens
Monday, August 30, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to the Holocaust, even a documentary based on original footage, like Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished, has more in common with other movies than with the experience it depicts.Not Your Grandmother’s Candlesticks
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Menachem Wecker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To view the works exhibited at a recent show of contemporary ritual Judaica is to ask where the line should be drawn between Jewish art and Jewish kitsch.Triple Play
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Tarek Heggy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Egypt, like the rest of the Arab world, has many problems, of which the three most immediate are identity, education, and democracy. To Be Self-Fruitful and Multiply
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Gilit Chomsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Orthodox women who find themselves single at a certain age are having children on their own, absent a unified rabbinic position.