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Rav OvadiaTuesday, October 12, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the more outsized personalities in Israel's history is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the longtime head of the Shas political party, who has just marked his ninetieth birthday. The foreign public knows of him, vaguely, as a right-wing fanatic. But the truth and perhaps the tragedy of the man are far more complicated and fascinating.
The J Street ScandalMonday, October 11, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent scandal involving the lobbying group J Street, a liberal organization founded in 2008 that bills itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace," may seem to some like a tempest in a teapot. In fact it is very significant, especially to anyone concerned about Israel, its future, and its relationship to the United States.
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The American Jewish community hardly suffers from a dearth of younger leaders; but where do they mean to lead it? A new report. (PDF)A Tale of Two Galloways
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reconstructing the true authorship and subsequent history of the famous assertion, made in 1952, that the Arab states have exploited the Palestinian refugees as a tool against Israel.Patriarchy Rampant
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jill Hamilton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever complaints Israeli Jews have about the chief rabbinate's grip on marriage and family law, Christians all over the Middle East have it worse.Signs of Life
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Joanna Paraszczuk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In hip, avant-garde, multicultural Tel Aviv, the latest cool thing is . . . Yiddish.Gone West
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Asher Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new exhibit documents the founding and the flourishing of Chicago's Jewish community.Minority Report
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit with members of minority populations who straddle the mountainous regions bordering Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. (With photos)The Sonderberg Case
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Elie Wiesel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is all the world a stage? A theater critic uses his training to report on the trial of a young German defendant pleading "Guilty . . . and not guilty." (Novel excerpt)The Devil Is in the Details
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.
