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Sifting the Cairo GenizahFriday, April 1, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Everyone knows about the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered over 60 years ago, and about the new light they shed on the sectarian Judaism of late antiquity, the beginnings of rabbinic Judaism, and possibly the prehistory of Christianity. Fifty years before that, the Cairo Genizah similarly revolutionized the picture of the Jewish Middle Ages.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By one count, Jerusalem has been conquered 61 times. Why is only the most recent conquest problematic?The Forgotten Woman Cantor
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For nine years (1884–1893), Julie Eichberg Rosewald led services at San Francisco's Temple Emanu-El.
The Archeology WarThursday, March 31, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) was founded in 1979 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). It has three basic goals. The first is to spread a Saudi version of Koranic education throughout the Islamic world. The second is to publicize Islam to the non-Islamic world. The third goal is to oppose the "Judaization of Al-Quds"—i.e., Jerusalem.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whoever is responsible for it, the renewed violence against Israel is clearly a ploy to divert attention from the internal Arab upheavals and lure the U.S. back to the utterly bankrupt "peace process."Ad Lunam, Per Aspera
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Daniel Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Three young engineers might just be "crazy enough" to make Israel the world's third country to land on the surface of the moon.What Do You Mean by Democracy?
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The columnist Roger Cohen is incapable of distinguishing between groups bent on Islamist domination and a genuinely democratic if flawed Israeli party like Shas.Dominoes
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the monarchies of the Middle East have a fighting chance to reform and survive, the region's dictatorial "republics" have been toppling down. Syria is next.Chai Society
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Adam Pitluk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Traditionally excluded from Yale's secret societies, Jewish students founded Eliezer, a club and salon that has blossomed into an organization of global repute.Standing Up to the UN
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the American ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission in the mid-1990s, Geraldine Ferraro took a poised and principled stance against its demonization of Israel.
