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Upstart DoveTuesday, 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.
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arabs are rightly known for hospitality, but Israelis, contrary to their bluff stereotype, are no slouches.
The Conversion ConundrumMonday, July 26, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Late last week, narrowly averting a looming crisis within world Jewry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a postponement, possibly indefinite, of prospective Knesset legislation making the Chief Rabbinate the arbiter of conversion in the Jewish state and thus of who may be eligible for citizenship under Israel's foundational Law of Return. The measure has stirred impassioned debate in and between Israel and the Diaspora, much of it a depressing if also revealing exercise in talking past each other.
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The German jurist appointed to follow up on the Goldstone Report worked for the PLO in the 1990's and has condemned Israeli targeted killings as "very much" in the direction of state terrorism.“I Am an Israeli”
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Jennifer Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why John Hagee's Christians United for Israel is the fastest-growing Israel support group in America.Fellow Travelers
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Toby Tabachnik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "Noahide" organization has launched a website to connect Gentiles drawn to Judaism but not ready to convert.Matisyahu Made Me Cry
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Hampton Stevens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hasidic reggae reduces a critic to tears.Whatever Happened to Middle East Cosmopolitanism?
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Sami Zubaida | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Obliterated by sectarianism, fanaticism, and Third Worldism, an older and more hopeful form of Arab-Muslim political life survives today only in memory.He Who Saves One Life
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Monika Scislowska | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How a Polish Catholic inmate of Auschwitz, dressed as an SS guard, rescued his Jewish sweetheart.