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Access IraqTuesday, January 4, 2011 by Steven Lee Myers, Stephen Farrell, and Shiho Fukada | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ancient sites inaccessible during Saddam Hussein's regime—including the tombs of biblical prophets—are once again welcoming tourists. (With video and photos.)Out of Africa
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than a thousand Africans stagger out of the desert each month, hoping to start a new life in Israel. First, they have to brave the Sinai's Bedouin smugglers.“A Radio Check with God”
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Foremost among Israel's new cohort of religious Zionist poets, Eliaz Cohen writes verse that is at once political and lyrical, rooted in both Arabic and the biblical core of Jewish literature. One Family’s History
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A look inside the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, including the recently acquired archive of the Bloch family, four "random victims" of the Shoah.Occupied Territories Revisited
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Harry Kanigel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel cannot base its security arrangements on transitory political conditions in the U.S. or the Arab states. A historical, geographical, and legal primer on defensible borders. (With maps.)
Lost & Found
In 1974, a strange letter from northeastern India landed on the desk of Israel's then Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was sent by a group of Indians claiming to be descendants of the biblical tribe of Menashe.
Solving the InsolubleTuesday, January 4, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1974, a strange letter from northeastern India landed on the desk of Israel's then Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was sent by a group of Indians claiming to be descendants of the biblical tribe of Menashe.
Monday, January 3, 2011 by Martin Bright | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gentile and Jew, a British symposium published in the mid-1940s, captures the moral and intellectual confusion of the years running up to the foundation of Israel. Little has changed.Shoah
Monday, January 3, 2011 by Roger Ebert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now re-released on its 25th anniversary, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour documentary remains one of the noblest films ever made.Praying What We Pray
Monday, January 3, 2011 by Azriel Fellner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Analyzing six Jewish prayers, Barry Freundel shows how they were shaped and reshaped and became what they are today; in so doing, he revives the life of prayer itself.The Other Scholem
Monday, January 3, 2011 by Jay Geller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once-prominent Werner Scholem—overshadowed by his younger brother Gershom, murdered at Buchenwald, his name consigned to oblivion by his Communist colleagues—has faded into history.