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The Rewards of “Resistance”Friday, May 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bashar Assad believes, with reason, that he can get further by negotiating with Washington than by negotiating with Israel.Bible Breakthrough?
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A study group asks whether, with computer technology, it might become possible—or necessary, or desirable—to reconstruct the ur-text of the Torah.Chaim Grade’s Legacy
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?Ritual Art or Ritual Hype
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two events in San Francisco spark thoughts on art, fashion, and tradition.Mysteries of the Baal Shem Tov
Friday, May 21, 2010 by David Assaf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Little is known about the birth of the founder of the Hasidic movement, but much about his passing.Scotland’s Jewry
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Billy Briggs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.Mentored by Gauguin
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Paris exhibit reestablishes Meijer de Haan, an energetic painter inspired by Jewish themes, as a considerable artistic force.
Israel’s Nuclear WeaponsTuesday, May 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 5, 2009, speaking before throngs of supporters in a Prague square, President Barack Obama declared America's commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. With this as an apparent impetus, the Arab world has pressed for greater international attention to . . . Israel's nuclear activities. It did so most recently at a Washington conference devoted to keeping nuclear materials out of terrorist hands, and at a subsequent review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York. Under Arab prodding, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., issued a statement calling...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Avi Shafran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A holiday characterized by no specific ritual act, Shavuot recapitulates the Israelites' embrace of the Torah at Sinai in a mood of perfect acceptance.Shavuot: Covenant and Meaning
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by David Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who better exemplifies the contract between God and the Jews: the Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, or the Abraham empowered by God to argue with Him?
