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For Israelis, a Two-Day Weekend?Tuesday, June 28, 2011 by William Kolbrener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In addition to synchronizing Israeli businesses with the world's markets, an American-style Sunday might allow for a welcome catching of the collective breath.Orthodoxy in Motion
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A decade or so ago, a sociologist argued that American Orthodoxy was sliding to the Right; today he contends it is sliding to the Left. Maybe the terms need to be examined.
Montreal, a Love StoryTuesday, June 28, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The second International Yiddish Theater Festival, an elaborate ten-day fete whose program ranges from carnavalesque performances to academic symposia, just wrapped up last week in Montreal. What is especially surprising about this celebration is that Montreal is a city with a Jewish population of less than 80,000.
Monday, June 27, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seventeen skeletons of adults and children, found at the bottom of a well in Norwich, England, may be the remains of Jewish victims of persecution in the 12th or 13th century.A Still-Relevant Miracle
Monday, June 27, 2011 by Fania Oz-Salzberger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's Israel was germinated out of a process so swift, dramatic, and inventive as to defy comparison with any other nation-building project in modern times.The Last of the Gauchos
Monday, June 27, 2011 by Juan Forero | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Between 1881 and 1936, tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants settled and created Yiddish-speaking agricultural settlements in Argentina's plains; today, only a few remain.The Settlement Obsession
Monday, June 27, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's settlements, and what will become of them, are a great problem for Zionism, but they are not the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
One Woman ArmyMonday, June 27, 2011 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Andrei Sakharov, the great nuclear physicist and human-rights campaigner, had been dead for two years by the time I came to his Moscow apartment in the early summer of 1991. Elena Bonner, his widow, was there, still defiantly at war with the faceless foe that had slaughtered her family, exiled her and her husband, slandered her Jewish name, and lied about it all.
Monday, June 27, 2011 by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the liberal branches of American Judaism, sexual egalitarianism has led to male disengagement, leading to the creation of exclusively male-centered activities, leading to . . . segregation?Israel, the U.S., and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Taylor Dinerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Threatened by a new generation of precision-strike weapons in the hands of its adversaries, Israel is changing the way it fights—to the certain benefit of its American ally.
