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Do I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem?Friday, August 27, 2010 by Theodore Sasson, Benjamin Phillips, Charles Kadushin, and Leonard Saxe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A June 2010 survey finds the majority of American Jews still attached to Israel, with those under forty-five somewhat less so; political ideology is not a factor. (PDF.)
A Grim TeachingFriday, August 27, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Every first-year law student knows that hard cases make bad law. In Israel, a particularly hard case lies in the ongoing controversy around an inflammatory Hebrew-language volume of Jewish religious law (halakhah) that offers justifications for violent treatment of non-Jews in general and of Israel's foes in particular. The debate has highlighted longstanding divisions within Israeli society; now that the courts and the police have gotten into the act, it has also highlighted the difficulties of drawing meaningful lines between free speech and incitement.
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Lina Sinjab | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Multi-generational Palestinian "refugees" are not necessarily eager to return to their ancestral homes.Arrested Development
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today, adulthood comes later and later. Why should the age of bar mitzvah stay the same?Mountain Jews
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Sarah Marcus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two-and-a-half millennia ago, a band of Jews passed through Persia and settled in the Caucasus mountains, where amid growing hardship they maintain their culture today.
It Sounds Better in AmharicThursday, August 26, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his one-man play, It Sounds Better in Amharic, the Ethiopian-born Israeli actor Yossi Vassa humorously contrasts life in the old world and the new, mulling over the differences between traditional and modern ways of dating and the respective virtues of traveling by donkey or Lamborghini. He also narrates his family's 400-mile journey from Ethiopia to Sudan—from where, in 1984, the Israeli air force flew 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Vassa's family covered the 400 miles on foot, in three months. "Not to brag," he comments, "but it took the children of Israel 40 years."
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yes, there is a powerful lobby that distorts American foreign policy in the Middle East; but the Israel lobby isn't it.Unwilling and Unable
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like Arafat before him, Mahmoud Abbas does not accept Israel's right to exist and is committed to its eventual destruction. How can such a man deliver peace?Jews Formerly for Obama
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Ed Lasky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jewish voters are leaving the Democratic party, and some are, it's not, or not only, because of their concern for Israel.Was Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav the Messiah?
Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Justin Jaron Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some of his followers may have thought so, but a newly translated "secret" scroll fails to cast much light on the issue.