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Mel and the MaccabeeThursday, September 22, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Australian-American actor and director Mel Gibson—he of the anti-Semitic outbursts, the abused girlfriend, The Passion of the Christ—has just closed a deal to make a film for Warner Bros. with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas about the life of Judah Maccabee.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Moses ben Maimon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Oxford's Bodleian Library has made its famous manuscript copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law available online in its entirety.Jewish in Turkey
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A community depleted by decades of out-migration insists that it feels completely at home; in private, speaking not for attribution, many voice fear—or defiance.Toward a Jewish Humanism
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Shai Held | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The moral philosophy embraced by a religious-Zionist leader in the mid-20th century is in urgent need of revival.Their Last Full Measure of Devotion
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Katherine Calos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Hebrew Cemetery of Richmond, Virginia, lie the remains of 30 Jewish soldiers who fought and died for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. (With video.)Trap and Trade
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sharon's uprooting of Gush Katif was supposed to be a step toward peace. Instead it planted the idea that areas can be ethnically cleansed of Jews.
The Wages of DurbanWednesday, September 21, 2011 by Arch Puddington | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the days just prior to the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) was very much in the news, and for reasons that are altogether relevant to the mass murder that took place on September 11, 2001.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just as the partition vote in 1948 did not "create" a Jewish state, so too the present vote will not create a Palestinian one.Beyond Bruriah
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Judith Hauptman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contrary to a long-held scholarly belief, women in the rabbinic period did learn Torah—in their own way.Showdown, Moses
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Alon Ben-Meir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Egyptian mob ransacking Israel's embassy in Cairo, threatening the lives of the Israeli personnel inside: Is this what the revolutionaries wanted?
