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The Melancholy DaneThursday, November 18, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamlet's soliloquy in Hebrew: a few early attempts.Going Kosher?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A forthcoming book challenges Reform Jews to develop a dietary practice based on such values as sustainability, morality—and, yes, kashrut.The Archeology Wars
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Robert Draper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was the Jerusalem of David and Solomon a little cow town, or the capital of a glorious empire?Why is This Knight Different from All Other Knights?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At German Jewish weddings nearly a thousand years ago, jousting competitions were part of the entertainment.
Kadima in the WingsWednesday, November 17, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Whether or not Benjamin Netanyahu accedes to American pressure for a renewal of the construction freeze in West Bank settlements, the prospect has created roiling dissension within the prime minister's Likud party and raised the possibility of a split—or, to be more accurate, another split.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A watchdog organization has revealed the virulently anti-Israel record of the influential London Review of Books—financed by the British taxpayer and Her Majesty's Government.Vayishlah: Face to Face
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon is said to have compared reading a text in translation to kissing a bride through her veil. This week's Torah portion affords a good opportunity to look at some of what we may be missing through the veil of translation.X-Access
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 by Jean-Baptiste Piggin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dramatic new methods have been developed to sort the thousands of still unidentified fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls without damage to the goatskin parchments.
Obama and Israel: What Now?Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since the Obama administration's major defeat in the American midterm elections, commentators have been wondering how the new constellation of forces in Washington will affect the president's Middle East peace initiative.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Philadelphia's new National Museum of American Jewish History is more preoccupied with the freedom given Jews to become Americans than with the freedom given them to remain Jews.
