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Mimouna!Friday, May 13, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What did two million Israelis do when Passover ended this year? As in previous years, they celebrated Mimouna, a Moroccan Jewish holiday that is popularly observed by picnicking, barbecueing, and consuming moufletas (sweet North African pancakes). And what is Mimouna all about? No one really knows.
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At one-hundred, the teacher and comic novelist Bel Kaufman may be the last person alive who remembers the peculiar humor of her grandfather, Sholem Aleichem.What “Disaffected Jews”?
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Ted Lapkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Claims of a weakened attachment to Israel are grossly overstated, if not patently false.Is Greed Good?
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An investigation into classical Jewish commentaries on the accumulation of wealth, its benefits and its perils.A Palestinian Munich
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The first strong gesture made by the reconciled parties of Hamas and Fatah was to condemn the killing of bin Laden. That, and the deafening silence greeting their pronouncement, says it all.
Agitprop in AmericaThursday, May 12, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The tempest has subsided, and the playwright Tony Kushner will receive his honorary doctorate from the City University of New York after all. After a single trustee convinced the majority of his fellow board members to deny the award on the basis of Kushner's viciously negative pronouncements about Israel, the weight of almost the entire New York cultural apparatus was brought to bear.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by John Eibner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Church burnings in Cairo are a sharp reminder that non-Muslim communities are an endangered species throughout much of the Islamic world.Shuffling the Deck Chairs
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Kuwait is now replacing Syria as a candidate for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council: essentially, a distinction without a difference. Strings Attached
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Money alone has not sufficed to buy a treasured Judaica library containing, among other unique specimens, hundreds of handwritten Hebrew documents dating back as much as 1,000 years.The Alawites and Israel
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by John Myhill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Would the fall of Assad's regime decrease or, on the contrary, increase the likelihood that Syria will precipitate a war against Israel? (PDF)
