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The Mood of the Oud The Mood of the Oud
Friday, December 10, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Arab elements continue to animate many forms of Jewish expression that, originally rooted in Arab countries, have been transplanted into Israeli society.
Poisoning the Young
Friday, December 10, 2010 by Soeren Kern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Muslim religious schools in the UK are using viciously anti-Semitic textbooks from Saudi Arabia. The result: a generation of Muslim students more extreme than their parents.
Sudan’s Jews
Friday, December 10, 2010 by Bataween | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

There are two chapters in the story of the Jews of Sudan. An earlier community was decimated when Jews were forcibly converted to Islam; the modern community was driven to extinction in the last 50 years.
Sin City on the Sea? Sin City on the Sea?
Thursday, December 9, 2010 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Tel Avivians are rubbing their eyes these days. Until lately so little thought of by the world that many tourists to Israel never bothered to visit it at all, their city is suddenly high on the places-to-be lists.
The State of the State
Thursday, December 9, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Beneath Israel's veneer of start-ups, hi-tech firms, and luxury hotels lies an ailing, unsupervised infrastructure that leaves it woefully unprepared for the next catastrophe.
Museum as Muse
Thursday, December 9, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The educator and scholar Cyrus Adler (1862-1940) may have been the first to argue for placing Jewish culture on display in modern America—but his vision differed markedly from that of today's curators.
Hanukkah in the Gulag
Thursday, December 9, 2010 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A makeshift hanukkiah and a prisoner's resourcefulness miraculously overcome a camp commander's obduracy. From the author's post-liberation memoir Fear No Evil (1986).
Brain Death and Jewish Law
Thursday, December 9, 2010 by Noam Stadlan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Orthodox neurosurgeon argues that the classical halakhic definition of death must be revisited—but a recent position paper on brain death is inaccurate and incomplete.
Soulmate Wanted Soulmate Wanted
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Slowly but surely, the divide between Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Israeli society is ebbing. But in one sector it continues to stand fast.
WikiFallout
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 by Tony Badran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

One unmistakable conclusion to draw from WikiLeaks: in the Middle East, Washington's conventional wisdom on foreign policy has been disconnected from reality.
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