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Unorthodox Orthodox MatchmakerFriday, August 19, 2011 by Cindy E. Rodriguez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi has devised a way to help homosexual men fulfill their dream of becoming husbands and fathers while remaining in good standing with Jewish religious law.The Keidan Way
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Andrew Cassel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Descendants of a storied Lithuanian community, wiped out by the Nazis and their local helpers in August 1941, keep the flame of memory alive at annual reunions, this year in Tel Aviv and New York.
Islamism and Western ArtFriday, August 19, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Osama bin Laden will forever be remembered spending his last days like a common shlub: sitting on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, remote control in hand, watching TV. Unlike most other shlubs, however, bin Laden just happened to be contemplating his own image on the boob tube.
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Syria to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt, sectarian conflict, reignited by the "Arab Spring," is becoming the norm. Will Israel be drawn in?Settlement Syndrome
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest complaint from Washington about new residential building in a West Bank town is evidence of a lingering fixation that impedes the possibility of compromise between Israelis and Palestinians.Samson without Delilah
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Saul Bellow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A novel by the Yiddish writer Zalman Shneour provokes reflections on varieties of Jewish strength and Jewish pride, and on the strangled roots of postwar Yiddish culture. (1945)