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J Street Blues
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Adam Kredo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why is an organization supposedly focused on Israel taking stances on abortion and other issues in American domestic politics?
Hamas Looming Hamas Looming
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas figure, was being ever so slightly disingenuous when he told the BBC that his movement would not attempt to halt the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu because in any case they are bound to die a natural death on their own.
Royal Seat
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Ronen Shnidman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In his highly decorated private theater at Herodion, King Herod occupied the box of honor, now uncovered by archaeologists.
Defending Israel, Defending the West
Friday, September 17, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Delegitimizing Israel undermines our identity, warps our values, and puts at risk what we are and who we are." A September 15 speech in Washington, D.C.
Heed the Power Heed the Power
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

A centerpiece of the Yom Kippur liturgy, as of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy before it, is an ancient, unnerving poem known by its opening words: U'netaneh tokef. In a day of high drama designed to rouse a no less dramatic inner journey of introspection and atonement, this prayer, chanted by the hazzan before the open ark, has for centuries exercised a unique power, at once terrifying and shriving, over the hearts and minds of all who hear it.
Lay Lady Preacher
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Leah Berkenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ray Frank, a self-described "stout opponent" of women's rights, became the first woman in memory to speak from a synagogue pulpit, delivering an 1890 Rosh Hashanah sermon.
Balfour and Beyond
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Itamar Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A 1917 decision, deriving as much from British geopolitical interests as from the unrelenting efforts of Chaim Weizmann, engendered historical consequences that are still unfolding.
Marjorie at Fifty-Five
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Rachel Gordan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Like her creator Herman Wouk, the fictional Everygirl who happened to be Jewish was more a maverick than the bourgeois conformist she has been called.
Seeing Iran Plain
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by Harold Rhode | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If we are to negotiate with Iran, or to help break the spell of its tyranny, we must first understand the country's culture, its history, and what Iranians value in their leaders. (PDF)
Eat, Shave, Chant
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by Menachem Kaiser | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The strange and wonderful pilgrimage of Bratzlaver Hasidim to Uman, Ukraine. (With slide show.)
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