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Where Have All the Prophets Gone?Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Writing in 1911, Martin Buber declared that "the nature of the prophets" lives within the Jewish people. A hundred years later, do any Jews still believe this?
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
All over the Muslim Middle East, Christians and Christianity are in fearful retreat.Artful Dodging
Monday, January 17, 2011 by J.J. Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does American Orthodox culture, while producing more than its fair share of lawyers and doctors, yield scarcely a single poet or painter?A Tale of Two Hatreds
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite the claims of some, "Islamophobia" is not Europe's new anti-Semitism, and the pretense undermines the fight against radical Islamic terrorists.What Light through Yonder Window Breaks?
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Eric A. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new, full-length feature film of Romeo and Juliet—in Yiddish, and made in the U.S.—is premiering this week; it is not the only recent effort of its kind.History Repeating Itself
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just like many villagers in the Galilee before them, a plurality of east Jerusalem Palestinians want to remain Israelis. Will they be able to?
Science, Faith, and Biblical ArcheologyMonday, January 17, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Biblical archeology was born out of twinned desires: to "illuminate" the world of the Bible and, ultimately, to prove the truth of the Word.
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of the New Jerusalem Orchestra, which fuses contemporary jazz, ancient piyyutim, and Middle Eastern rhythms. (Video.)B’shallah: Earning Eternal Enmity
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
At the very end of this week's portion, the newly freed Israelites are attacked by Amalek. After the attack is rebuffed, and after Joshua, the Israelites' commanding officer, inflicts casualties on the aggressors, Moses declares (Exodus 17:16): "God will wage war against Amalek from generation to generation." Who were the Amalekites, and how did they earn God's eternal enmity?
The Hamas-Fatah Two-StepFriday, January 14, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Frustrated by the diplomatic deadlock over negotiations with the Palestinians, many Westerners, and some Israelis themselves, have focused on the need to accommodate the demands of Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA).