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Bostoner Rebbe DiesTuesday, December 8, 2009 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born hassidic rebbe, split his time between Boston and Jerusalem, reached out to unaffiliated Jews, and was opposed to territorial concessions in the land of Israel.A Convenient Anti-Semitic Theme
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Rifat Bali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Examining the belief that the massacres of Armenians in World War I were the result of a secret Jewish-Zionist-Freemason plot, and naming those, on different sides, who have benefited from spreading it.How Not to Fix the Middle East
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Martin Kramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By its reluctance to uphold American primacy in the region, the administration has created a perilous vacuum of power.
Festival of LightsMonday, December 7, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hanukkah, the eight-day holiday whose Hebrew dates are 25 Kislev - 2 Tevet, begins this year on the evening of December 11. It commemorates an ancient victory at once military, political, social, and religious. Militarily, the victory, which took place in Judea in 165 B.C.E., saw the routing of the forces of the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes by a rebel Jewish army under the leadership of Judah Maccabee. Politically, it ushered in a prolonged period of independent Jewish rule under the Hasmonean dynasty. Socially, it betokened the triumph of traditionalist Jews over the assimilating Hellenizers in their midst. Religiously,...
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Ze'ev B. Begin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to the Likud minister-without-portfolio, no final-status agreement can be reached until Fatah changes its program fundamentally.When Will Obama Learn?
Monday, December 7, 2009 by George S. Hishmeh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Misled, perhaps, by his (Jewish) advisers, the President fails to see that no progress is possible until Israel is made to abandon its relentless program of colonization and ethnic cleansing.An Exemplary German
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Gina Thomas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography of Adam von Trott, executed for his part in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler, rescues the integrity of a bold voice at a miserable time.Yeshiva Students in Khaki
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As more Haredi students serve in the Israel Defense Forces, the monolithic isolation of the ultra-Orthodox world shows early signs of cracking.When and How Did Israel Become a People?
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Avraham Faust | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Religion aside, the archaeological evidence points to a date in the 13th century B.C.E.Can We Blame Them?
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Tawfik Hamid | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Defending the Swiss ban on minarets, and answering the cries of outrage in the Muslim world.
