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Berlin and JerusalemTuesday, September 13, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Relations between Germany and Israel are too important for either side to become even an inch less close to the other; interview with Melody Sucharewicz.Think Again
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Maya Bernstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish communal "innovators" need to grapple with and assimilate Judaism's own ideas, the fruits of a tradition with centuries of community-building experience.Jewish-Muslim Metal
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Naama Shilony and Yesim Dikmen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Lyrics drawn from the Hebrew liturgy, the Quran, and other religious texts feature in the repertoire of an Israeli band whose Arab fans travel to Turkey to hear it.It’s a Bird! It’s a Challah!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Leah Koenig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rolls shaped like birds, symbols of divine protection and mercy, are among traditional Ashkenazi foods for Rosh Hashanah and the meal before Yom Kippur.
Spying for ZionTuesday, September 13, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Spying goes on everywhere, all the time, 24/7. But the way spying is treated—when it is discovered, when it is publicized, when spies are arrested, tried, and jailed—is highly variable, especially in the United States. The timing is almost never a matter of chance.
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did Moses suffer from a speech impediment, and if so, what was it?Cold Autumn
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No one knows what will follow President Abbas's gambit at the UN, but Palestinian officials have not budged on the rights of "refugees" or on recognizing Jews as a people.
Enmity; or, Yiddish in AmericaMonday, September 12, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
He was irascible, neurotic, self-obsessed, and socially inept; a brilliant misfit and misanthropic dilettante. Upon his death in July 2010, Harvey Pekar's few close friends insisted that the underground comic-book writer was also a gem in the rough, an out-of-date socialist naïf.
Monday, September 12, 2011 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In face-to-face surveys, more Palestinians in east Jerusalem state a preference to be citizens of Israel rather than of a new state.Torah Archeology
Monday, September 12, 2011 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Breaking an unwritten taboo, the first ultra-Orthodox conference on the findings of biblical archeology has been held before a packed audience.
