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The Lone WolfFriday, July 23, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 70th yahrzeit of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was marked on July 11, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. There was nary a mention of it in the Israeli media—an extraordinary omission given that Jabotinsky was not only a founder of the Haganah and the supreme commander of the Irgun but also a towering Zionist theoretician and leader.
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The final installment of a three-part series on the lessons contained in the murals of a 3rd-century synagogue. Click here for parts I and II.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.
All That (Israeli) JazzThursday, July 22, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Add jazz to the growing list of fields in which Israelis are taking their place among the international elite. As the American magazine JazzTimes gushed in May 2008, "When it comes to jazz, Israel is the source of an almost miraculous outpouring of talent."
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In fact, it is a strategic bonanza, and the Middle East needs more states like it: strong, reliable, democratic, pro-American allies. (PDF)Hate Bait
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An open sewer of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish venom runs through the "Comments" sections of some of America's most prestigious foreign-policy websites.When I Am Laid in Earth
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Eric Yoffie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The increased informality of Jewish rituals leads to funerals that showcase the eulogizers instead of the deceased.Religion’s Place
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by James Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An online Italian daily interviews the renowned Bible scholar on religion and war, Jewish and other orthodoxies, Zionism, and relations between church and state today.The Jewish Caruso Sings Again
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On three compact discs, the owner of a Brooklyn record shop has digitally restored the voice of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt.