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Forbidden FruitTuesday, October 5, 2010 by Morris M. Faierstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apple, etrog, fig, grape? A Yiddish biblical commentary asks which fruit Eve really ate. (From the forthcoming Fall issue.)Jews on Deck
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Barry Hertz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new baseball documentary reminds us that before the era when public schools would shut down for Yom Kippur, there were Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax.
Religion and the IDFMonday, October 4, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Profound changes have been occurring in the officer ranks of the Israel Defense Force, and not everybody is happy about them; some, in fact, are downright alarmed. The figures tell the story: back in 1990, kippah-wearing soldiers from the country's "national-religious" community—that is, religious Jews distinguished by their deep attachment to Zionism, Israeli nationalism, and, in many cases, the settlement enterprise—comprised a mere 2.5 percent of graduates from the army's course for infantry officers. In 2007, the figure peaked at more than 31 percent, a number totally out of proportion with the number of religious-national soldiers serving in IDF infantry...
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In exchange for an extension of the freeze on settlement construction, Obama has offered Israel an impressive amount of political and military support. So why is Netanyahu likely to decline?Friends Indeed
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It was the 2004 Madrid bombings that convinced José María Aznar, then the prime minister of Spain, that "the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel."The Divine Sarah
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Graham Robb | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sarah Bernhardt rose from humble origins to become the world's most famous actress; but about the "real" Bernhardt, including the Jewish Bernhardt, there seems little to report.The Ground beneath His Feet
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Ramallah lawyer has written a book about walking through the hills in a path that is increasingly circumscribed because of Israeli land grabs—or is it?A Royal Return
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Ran Shapira | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two thousand years after an Assyrian queen converted to Judaism and visited Jerusalem, her sarcophagus has returned to Israel.Kosherize Me
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In her new book, Sue Fishkoff notes that the expansion of the kosher food industry has, ironically, caused kosher food to become invisible.Fiddler in the Rough
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Daniel F. Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Directing a summer camp production of Fiddler on the Roof means turning shy, sniveling campers into the boisterous residents of Anatevka. (Part 3 of 4.)
