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A Greek GiftFriday, November 19, 2010 by Michelle Michalos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tucked away on New York's Lower East Side, the last Greek synagogue in the Western hemisphere remains a gathering place for Romaniote Jews, a group distinct from both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. (With video.)Now City
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the issue of war and peace out of their hands, Tel Avivians keep on living and building—as their parents and grandparents have done, under similarly perilous conditions, for 100 years.Howard’s End
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Leslie Howard, the British Jewish actor most famous for his role in Gone with the Wind, was also a fearless anti-Fascist crusader.Projection Theory
Friday, November 19, 2010 by Raymond Ibrahim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Islamist descriptions of Jews and Israel more nearly describe the worst characteristics of radical Islam.
Why Rachel’s Tomb Matters
All cultures build on what came before them. But how they treat the past is a measure of cultures in the present. The treatment by Muslims of Rachel's tomb, lately much in the news, is a case in point.
Where the World Sits on the FenceFriday, November 19, 2010 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
All cultures build on what came before them. But how they treat the past is a measure of cultures in the present. The treatment by Muslims of Rachel's tomb, lately much in the news, is a case in point.
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's fulfillment of a UN agreement to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border town of Ghajar will create 2,000 stateless refugees; no human-rights organizations are coming to defend them.The Forgotten Exodus?
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Shmuel Trigano | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries between 1920 and 1970 form, along with their descendants, the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel's population.“More Holes than Cheese”
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Benny Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To embark on negotiations with the Palestinians without recognition of Israel as the Jewish state is to repeat the fatal error of the Oslo agreement.A DNA Rescue Project
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Lisa Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The geneticist son of two Holocaust survivors has started a genetic database to reconnect families who have been lost to one another.
Summoned Home
In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein (a/k/a Yankev Glatshteyn, 1896-1971) received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. At the precise moment when so many Jews were desperately trying to make the reverse journey, Glatstein found himself on an unanticipated and almost certainly unwanted return home.
Thursday, November 18, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein (a/k/a Yankev Glatshteyn, 1896-1971) received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. At the precise moment when so many Jews were desperately trying to make the reverse journey, Glatstein found himself on an unanticipated and almost certainly unwanted return home.