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Kuwait’s Palestinian ExpulsionThursday, December 6, 2012 by Steven J. Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arafat called what Kuwait did to its Palestinians “worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.” But the international community said nothing.Rochl and the World of Ideas
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Sheindl Franzus-Garfinkle | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rochl’s mother laments the perils of study: “Your brother convinced himself he had to study in America. Now he’s there working like a dog. See what comes of your enlightenment!” (Fiction)Your Dialogue, My Dialogue
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Peter Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today the Western world is inundated with interfaith dialogues. Is the underlying reason simply the fact that religions finally see they must face a world of religious pluralism?The Problem of Proportional Response
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fifty years ago Ben-Gurion faced the problem of finding a proportional response to Syrian attacks on Israeli fisherman. The answer was—as it remains today—targeted military attacks.Vayeishev: Pharoah’s Court
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Was it "courtiers" who had the dreams that Joseph interprets in prison—or eunuchs? (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:24
The Sigd Festival Comes Home to JerusalemWednesday, December 5, 2012 by Shai Afsai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On the Sigd, Ethiopian Jews would walk to a mountaintop and pray to return to Jerusalem. Now they are in Jerusalem, and the Sigd is a national holiday in Israel.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has supported urban contiguity between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem—and a planned road will ensure Palestinian contiguity as well. (2009)Chabad, the Corporation
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Maya Balakirsky Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By not appointing a successor, the Rebbe sowed the seeds of Chabad's institutional transformation from a Hasidic dynasty to a successful religious corporation.

