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Tel Aviv on Two WheelsTuesday, November 22, 2011 by Roni Caryn Rabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The work-in-progress bike paths through Tel Aviv require a lot of stops and starts—all the better for close-up views of the bustling, seaside metropolis.
In the Jewish Dark ContinentTuesday, November 22, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Most American Jews descend from ancestors who resided in the Pale of Settlement, the territory from the Black Sea to the Baltic in which Jews were confined by the Czars. A new book describes one effort to chart that territory.
In November, the Arabs Said “No”Monday, November 21, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
There are no uneventful months in the tortured history of the Arab-Israel conflict. November is no exception. It was on November 2, 1917 that British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent Lord Rothschild a letter—the Balfour Declaration.
Monday, November 21, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is supremely irresponsible to equate Shalit's captivity to Pollard's imprisonment, or the former's inhumane abduction by Hamas to the latter's due process in the U.S.Saintly Scientist
Monday, November 21, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Co-winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in physics, James Franck's achievements and extended hand to postwar Germany are long overdue for a returned hand from his native country.Jordan Starts to Shake
Monday, November 21, 2011 by Nicolas Pelham | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Economic necessity has pushed Abdullah II closer to the middle-class Palestinian population and away from his natural base, thus destabilizing the security of his throne.The Voice of a Woman
Monday, November 21, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If many Orthodox Jews believe themselves to be forbidden from hearing a woman sing, how far should the Israeli military go to facilitate their observance?Long Trip Home
Monday, November 21, 2011 by Jane Eisner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the first African-American to head a national news magazine found the family and community that he desperately missed—among Jews.Treacherous Texts
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Benjamin Balint | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The amazing and enduring power of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has little to do with the mind of its forgers and everything to do with the avidity of its consumers.Et tu, Harold Bloom?
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Mark Paredes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just as it would not be appropriate to criticize rabbinic Judaism for not being an exact replica of Mosaic Judaism, it is also improper to ridicule the LDS Church for having adopted certain practices of late.
