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It’s a Bird! It’s a Challah!Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Leah Koenig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rolls shaped like birds, symbols of divine protection and mercy, are among traditional Ashkenazi foods for Rosh Hashanah and the meal before Yom Kippur.Cold Autumn
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No one knows what will follow President Abbas's gambit at the UN, but Palestinian officials have not budged on the rights of "refugees" or on recognizing Jews as a people.What do Palestinians Really Want?
Monday, September 12, 2011 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In face-to-face surveys, more Palestinians in east Jerusalem state a preference to be citizens of Israel rather than of a new state.
Enmity; or, Yiddish in AmericaMonday, September 12, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
He was irascible, neurotic, self-obsessed, and socially inept; a brilliant misfit and misanthropic dilettante. Upon his death in July 2010, Harvey Pekar's few close friends insisted that the underground comic-book writer was also a gem in the rough, an out-of-date socialist naïf.
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Breaking an unwritten taboo, the first ultra-Orthodox conference on the findings of biblical archeology has been held before a packed audience.The Plot Sickens
Monday, September 12, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite claims to the contrary, Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, The Plot against America, is emphatically not a dystopian parable for the post-9/11 world.Heavy of Tongue
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did Moses suffer from a speech impediment, and if so, what was it?
Israel, America, and the Lessons of 9/11Friday, September 9, 2011 by Abe Greenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Two heads belonging to the same monster: This is the way a significant portion of the world saw America and Israel on September 11, 2001. On television that day, we watched people jump to their deaths to escape the flames engulfing the World Trade Center.
Friday, September 9, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Legal and philosophical responses by Orthodox rabbis to the devastating consequences of the 9/11 attacks range from the arcane and casuistic to the sagacious, humane, and uplifting.As War Looms
Friday, September 9, 2011 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel’s neighbors stockpile weapons and threaten hostilities, but the defense establishment insists that the country’s security situation has never been better. Is it 1973 all over again?