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Howard’s EndFriday, November 19, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Leslie Howard, the British Jewish actor most famous for his role in Gone with the Wind, was also a fearless anti-Fascist crusader.Projection Theory
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Raymond Ibrahim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Islamist descriptions of Jews and Israel more nearly describe the worst characteristics of radical Islam.“More Holes than Cheese”
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Benny Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To embark on negotiations with the Palestinians without recognition of Israel as the Jewish state is to repeat the fatal error of the Oslo agreement.A DNA Rescue Project
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Lisa Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The geneticist son of two Holocaust survivors has started a genetic database to reconnect families who have been lost to one another.
Summoned HomeThursday, November 18, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein (a/k/a Yankev Glatshteyn, 1896-1971) received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. At the precise moment when so many Jews were desperately trying to make the reverse journey, Glatstein found himself on an unanticipated and almost certainly unwanted return home.
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamlet's soliloquy in Hebrew: a few early attempts.The Forgotten Exodus?
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Shmuel Trigano | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries between 1920 and 1970 form, along with their descendants, the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel's population.
Kadima in the WingsWednesday, November 17, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Whether or not Benjamin Netanyahu accedes to American pressure for a renewal of the construction freeze in West Bank settlements, the prospect has created roiling dissension within the prime minister's Likud party and raised the possibility of a split—or, to be more accurate, another split.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A watchdog organization has revealed the virulently anti-Israel record of the influential London Review of Books—financed by the British taxpayer and Her Majesty's Government.Vayishlah: Face to Face
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon is said to have compared reading a text in translation to kissing a bride through her veil. This week's Torah portion affords a good opportunity to look at some of what we may be missing through the veil of translation.