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Nice and Not NiceWednesday, August 24, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
English lacks anything that corresponds exactly to the Yiddish sheyn, which tends to convey the classical Jewish attitude that true beauty is as much moral as physical. But "nice" comes close.
Who Speaks for Israeli Arabs?Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Historians writing about Israel's 1948 fight for independence generally place heavy responsibility for the Palestinian Arab refugee problem on the Arab leaders who urged their people to flee Palestine temporarily until the Zionists were driven into the sea.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Ely Karmon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apologizing to Ankara over the Mavi Marmara incident, or to Cairo over the deaths of three Egyptian soldiers, might bring short-term calm—at the certain price of long-term harm.The Prophet
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In two magnificent novellas, published before World War II and now available in a new English edition, the Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein devastatingly foresaw the shape of things to come.Flogging and the Rabbis
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Michael L. Satlow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A once-common practice, recently recommended for revival by an American criminologist, is discussed at length in the Talmud. Barbarous, or something more complex and perhaps even effective?
Too Many Museums?Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Although the paint is still wet on Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History, an announcement has just been made of a planned National Museum of the Jewish People in Washington, D.C., steps from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and not far from two other Jewish museums.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Born August 18, 1910, Herman Berlinski was a prolific composer of sacred music whose masterworks include a complete setting of the (Reform) Friday-evening service. (With audio and video.)The Nerve
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Michael Wex | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Chutzpah": what is it, what isn't it, and what does it have to do with a tall tale by one of America's great 19th-century humorists?Hamas the Invulnerable?
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
So long as Hamas can attack Israel any time it wants, it can effectively veto any chance of peace with Palestinian moderates—should any turn up.In Tiktin, Without Jews
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to European attitudes toward the Jewish people, what, in the end, has changed since the Holocaust? Clearly, not enough.
