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The Sigd Festival Comes Home to JerusalemWednesday, December 5, 2012 by Shai Afsai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On the Sigd, Ethiopian Jews would walk to a mountaintop and pray to return to Jerusalem. Now they are in Jerusalem, and the Sigd is a national holiday in Israel.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has supported urban contiguity between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem—and a planned road will ensure Palestinian contiguity as well. (2009)Chabad, the Corporation
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Maya Balakirsky Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By not appointing a successor, the Rebbe sowed the seeds of Chabad's institutional transformation from a Hasidic dynasty to a successful religious corporation.Movies and Monotheism
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Julian Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For fifty years, Herman Wouk had dreamed of writing a book about Moses. Now, at the age of 97, he has finally admitted defeat—in his latest novel.Jew? Or Not A Jew?
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Robert Low | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For all the Christian echoes in Leonard Cohen's music, and his personal commitment to Roshi, his Buddhist Master, "one feels that deep down he is just as influenced by Rashi as by Roshi."Holocaust Tourism
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Wolfgang Höbel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tuvia Tenenbom’s raucous but disturbing travelogue of modern Germany, rife with accusations of anti-Semitism, shocked the country’s press last year. Now it has been translated into German.
