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By the Waters of LebanonWednesday, July 28, 2010 by Bassem Mroue | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The discovery of large natural-gas reserves off the coast of northern Israel has already sparked threats from Hizballah, and could spark war.Art Restoration
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Thomas R. Kline | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A famous modernist painting looted by the Nazis, sold by an Austrian collector, and lent to New York's Museum of Modern Art has at last been returned to public exhibition with compensation to the estate of its original Jewish owners.Cuneiform and Function
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An archaeological find may suggest an actual connection between the code of Hammurabi and biblical law.
On Peace, Freedom, and DemocracyWednesday, July 28, 2010 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
By Natan Sharansky Editors' Note: We present here two statements by Natan Sharansky—the first originally published after the September 1993 signing of the Oslo accords, the second written on the eve of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Each foresees failure, and each proposes a better path toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We reproduce the statements now in light of the subsequent history of those two earlier experiments, and with an eye to the current diplomatic push to forge, or impose, still another arrangement on the same failed terms.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Edmon J. Rodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Searching for yihes at a Jewish genealogical conference in Los Angeles.Yearning to Breathe Free
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Palestinians, Africans, and asylum-seekers throughout the Arab world dream of living in Israel.It’s Hizballah, Stupid
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Elias Youssef Bejjani | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not al Qaeda but Hizballah is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, in control of the Lebanese government and fully backed by Iran; will the world stand up to it, or succumb?Revisiting a Scandal
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The personal archive of Amram Blau, leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect, sheds light on the notorious marriage he made a decade before his death.Upstart Dove
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A contentious historian interviews Israeli President Shimon Peres on foreign relations, nuclear deterrence, his relationships with David Ben-Gurion and Yasir Arafat, and more. .
In the Cage of FeelingTuesday, July 27, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last week marked the hundredth birthday of Natan Alterman, one of the greatest and most dramatic of modern Hebrew poets and, in another aspect of his persona, a compelling and strong-minded commentator on contemporary events.