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The Tourist’s DilemmaMonday, June 20, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On the southwest coast of Albania on the Ionian Sea, opposite the Greek island of Corfu, beneath the modern town of Saranda, lies the ancient city of Onchesmos. That ancient city had a synagogue.
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Louis René Beres and John T. Chain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran should never have been allowed to proceed toward full and illegal nuclearization; if the intolerable becomes real, what can Israel do?The Missing Letter
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
George Washington wrote a famous letter on religious liberty to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island; copies abound, but for decades the original has lain forgotten in a suburban warehouse.Wading into Hezekiah’s Pool
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An ancient water source, lately an impromptu garbage dump for residents of Jerusalem's Christian Quarter, is claimed by at least three different religious bodies.Home as Found
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk lived the bohemian life of 1950s America to the hilt, only to find what he needed on returning to Tel Aviv; his latest book tells the raucously turbulent story.Does Israel Know What It’s Doing?
Friday, June 17, 2011 by Lazar Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Analysis of the Jewish state's responses to recent military and political challenges yields a surprising answer: yes.The New Anti-Iran Alignment
Friday, June 17, 2011 by H. Varulkar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The expansion of the Gulf Cooperation Council to include Jordan and Morocco creates a new inter-Arab political body, bolstering the strength of the Sunni monarchies against Shiite Iran.Shaming Mike Leigh
Friday, June 17, 2011 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A scholarship named for the British Jewish filmmaker will go to the Israeli film student "whose work displays those qualities"—of political and moral courage—the donor finds conspicuously lacking in Leigh himself. (With video.)Swaying While Praying
Friday, June 17, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some answers—from medieval to modern—to the question of why Jews rock back and forth at study and worship.
Israelites in the Anglo-Saxon SeaFriday, June 17, 2011 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since it was first composed, there have been dozens—if not hundreds—of renderings of the Hebrew Bible. The process of translation and creative elaboration began during the first millennium B.C.E.