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The Universal in the ParticularTuesday, March 2, 2010 by David Aaronovitch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The all-new Jewish Museum of London shows every sign of becoming an important national institution.The Last Victims
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Arieh O'Sullivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's Holocaust Memorial has embarked on what may be the final opportunity to record the names of the murdered.In Djerba: Safe, for Now
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Bataween | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under Ben Ali's firm rule, Jews feel secure on a picturesque Tunisian island hit by a devastating 2002 al-Qaeda attack; but for how long?
IranIran's nuclear program marches on: an existential threat to Israel—target of Tehran's declared genocidal intent—and an immense strategic challenge to the United States and the West as well as to Muslims, Arabs, and others with a stake in geopolitical stability. The Iranian regime has made no bones about seeing this moment as an historical hinge, marked by the rout of American influence and the rise of Tehran as the region's dominant power. As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed last week at his meeting in Damascus with the complaisant Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah, and Khaled Mashal, the Americans "have reached a dead end. They once...
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Mir Yarfitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On Jews and the white slave trade in old Buenos Aires.A Different Israel: The Movie
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Steven Zeitchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ajami isn't the only recent film to take a welcome turn away from political posturing.Old-New Debate
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ghost of Ahad Ha-Am continues to haunt public discourse in a country whose existence was made possible by his nemesis, Theodor Herzl.The High Cost of American Jewish Living
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The economic recession has exacerbated an ongoing and multifaceted crisis.Glittering Mugabe
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Ron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel chairs a UN-sanctioned program aimed at preventing trade in Zimbabwean diamonds mined with forced labor; its members include countries with which Israel has no diplomatic relations.
WineFriday, February 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On Purim, which falls on Sunday, Jews are commanded, among other things, to drink. While all manner of intoxicants will do, pride of place has always gone to wine, humanity's favored escape from consciousness since the dawn of recorded time. Wine, the Psalmist wrote (104:15), "gladdens the human heart." That's not all it does—which may be why the Hebrew Bible has ten different words for alcoholic beverages. Wine was offered in the Temple in worship, refrained from by priests and ascetic Nazirites. The rabbis accorded it a prominent role in ritual, not only at Purim and Passover but also on the...