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A Forgotten ZionistFriday, May 14, 2010 by Dalia Karpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Hebrew-language biography reintroduces Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, a fighter for Zionism on the American scene and within the Reform movement, and a model worth retrieving.Iran’s Jews: How Much Longer?
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Parvaneh Vahidmanesh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the remnants of a once-proud community.Love Among the Relics
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Peggy Cidor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A distinguished Jerusalem museum would have remained in Canada had the collector not fallen for a tough-talking New York businesswoman with a vision.A Shavuot Enigma
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Jo Milgrom and Joel Duman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The holiday marks God's giving of the Torah to Israel at Mount Sinai. In an illuminated manuscript from 1296, what are the Israelites doing crowded behind a window, inside the mountain?The Brandeis-Oren Flap
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A petition supporting the choice of Israel's ambassador as Brandeis commencement speaker has gathered four times as many student signers as an earlier petition to rescind the invitation.Keeper of the Flame
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Marissa Brostoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the death of the contentious widow of Chaim Grade, it may at last become possible for readers to have wider access to the works of the great Yiddish writer.
Jews and Khazars – Again, or NeverThursday, May 13, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The mass conversion to Judaism of the Khazars, a Turkic people from the North Caucaus, in the mid-8th century has fired imaginations for centuries. Medieval travelers told tantalizing stories of the Jewish kingdom beyond the mountains. In the 12th century, the great Spanish-Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi framed his philosophical masterpiece, The Kuzari, around this story. A very different use of the same story was made by racial theorists in the 19th century, by Arthur Koestler in the 20th century, and by the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand in the 21st. Asserting that Ashkenazi Jewry as a whole descended not from ancient Israel...
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Avinoam Bar-Yosef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like Bill Clinton before him, Barack Obama wants to know how much Israel is prepared to concede. He is unlikely to get further than his predecessor.What the Besht Left Behind
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the 250th anniversary of his death, the legacy of the founder of Hasidism deserves to be not only honored but celebrated.
Shalom JapanWednesday, May 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is in Tokyo this week for meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. Lieberman is seeking more robust Japanese pressure on Iran to halt its quest for nuclear weapons. His arrival follows a visit only last month by deputy premier Dan Meridor, who is responsible for intelligence matters. Lieberman's other main goal will be strengthening the economic ties between Israel and Japan, which have blossomed since the 1993 Oslo Accords and the weakening of the Arab boycott. At $3.4 billion worth of business annually, Japan is second only to China as...