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A Heritage Up for Grabs?Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A mini-flap over ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls is but a skirmish in a larger battle over who owns, and can best protect, physical evidence of the Jewish past.New Voice for Zionism
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Suissa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a rainy night, a visitor from Ein Prat electrifies an audience of 100 young Los Angeles professionals.
ShasThursday, January 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a first for Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, the Sephardi-dominated Shas party has joined the World Zionist Organization—another step on the road to becoming a fixed presence in the country's political landscape. Founded in the mid-1980's, Shas has long scrambled conventional categories. Although the party is avowedly haredi, and its leaders tend to imitate both the garb and the ideologically-mobilized politics of Ashkenazi haredim, most Shas voters conduct their lives in a non-haredi, if traditional, style. As for attitudes toward the state, Shas politicians, unlike their more squeamish Ashkenazi counterparts, serve in the Israeli cabinet and, sometimes, in the IDF. The success...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An attack on visiting Israeli diplomats in Jordan bears signs of Iranian involvement.
Dona Nobis PacemWednesday, January 20, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI made his first visit to Rome's synagogue. Clouding the occasion was the feeling among many that the Vatican has yet to make an honest reckoning with its conduct in World War II, a failure epitomized in the process under way to beatify Pius XII. Despite a papal visit to Israel and meetings with Jewish leaders, Benedict has seemed surprisingly maladroit in his dealings with the Jewish community. More is at work here than manners. For the Pope, a serious philosopher and intellectual, the truths of faith and the truths of reason are mutually reinforcing gifts of...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Anav Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No wonder the Gaza Freedom March featured so few Palestinians; in Gaza, they have no freedom.Useful Idiots
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a student vote to twin the world-renowned London School of Economics with the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza.Whose Holocaust?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For much of Europe, January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day; the question is what is being remembered, by whom, and for what purpose.Whose Torah?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new book, a rabbi and a Catholic theologian collaborate to strip Judaism of its distinctively Jewish elements, and then to Christianize what remains.The Tao of a Tel Avivian
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Maya Sela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the death of a scholar, editor, and publisher who celebrated Eastern religion, Western learning, and the first modern Hebrew city.
