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Faces and HandsFriday, May 18, 2012 by William Meyers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Mindla Diament was a beautiful woman. We know that from the portrait her older sister Julia Pirotte took of her in Marseille in 1942. In Julia's picture Mindla's face emerges from darkness, classically Semitic, with large eyes, a full mouth, slender neck, and imposing spiritual depth.
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Below Jerusalem's Old City, a Freemason "laid my pocket Bible atop the stone in the middle of the cave and three candles around it which shower light . . ."Hezbollah’s Newest Threat
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The culture of resistance crafted by Hezbollah is on the wane, as many Shiites aren't eager to serve as human shields in the next round of warfare.Haredinomics
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Uri Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By bringing in donations, Israel's ultra-Orthodox—whether they know it or not—are boosting the country's GDP.The Nakba that Almost Was
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Robert Werdine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What would have happened to the Jewish towns of nascent Israel were the invading Arab armies successful?Dragoman
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Eric Ormsby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though Bernard Lewis is firmly opposed to historical relativists, he is keenly aware of the sheer slipperiness of historical terrain.Wadiya Doin’?
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by J. Hoberman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Chaplin's Great Dictator ends with an anti-fascist speech; Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator breaks the proscenium to make a blunt political statement—about the inequities of American society.The Refugee Question
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Ruth Lapidoth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The plight of the Palestinian refugees raises at least three legal questions: Who is considered a refugee? Do these refugees have a right to return to Israel? Do they have a right to compensation? (2002)
Aquarius in ZionThursday, May 17, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the great crazy quilt of Israeli religious and spiritual life, the cluster of ideas and practices called "New Age" (in Hebrew, 'Idan Hadash) is increasingly visible. Love it or hate it, it's around, in books, festivals, newspapers, the pronouncements of tycoons, and growing networks of popular Kabbalah.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Roni Caryn Rabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite a sequence of papal edicts prohibiting Jewish doctors from treating Christians, almost every pope in history had a personal physician who was Jewish.
