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“Your wounded brother, Yaakov”
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Noah Kosharek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recently discovered letter sheds new light on Jaffa's 1921 anti-Jewish pogroms.
Yom Kippur at Sea
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year.
Heed the Power Heed the Power
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

A centerpiece of the Yom Kippur liturgy, as of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy before it, is an ancient, unnerving poem known by its opening words: U'netaneh tokef. In a day of high drama designed to rouse a no less dramatic inner journey of introspection and atonement, this prayer, chanted by the hazzan before the open ark, has for centuries exercised a unique power, at once terrifying and shriving, over the hearts and minds of all who hear it.
Defending Israel, Defending the West
Friday, September 17, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Delegitimizing Israel undermines our identity, warps our values, and puts at risk what we are and who we are." A September 15 speech in Washington, D.C.
Lay Lady Preacher
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Leah Berkenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ray Frank, a self-described "stout opponent" of women's rights, became the first woman in memory to speak from a synagogue pulpit, delivering an 1890 Rosh Hashanah sermon.
Balfour and Beyond
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Itamar Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A 1917 decision, deriving as much from British geopolitical interests as from the unrelenting efforts of Chaim Weizmann, engendered historical consequences that are still unfolding.
Marjorie at Fifty-Five
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Rachel Gordan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Like her creator Herman Wouk, the fictional Everygirl who happened to be Jewish was more a maverick than the bourgeois conformist she has been called.
Royal Seat
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Ronen Shnidman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In his highly decorated private theater at Herodion, King Herod occupied the box of honor, now uncovered by archaeologists.
No Justice, No Peace
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by John Mark Reynolds | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Until anti-Semitism is purged, and until every minority group in the Middle East enjoys the rights of religious and cultural minorities in Israel, there will be no peace.
The Best Proletarian Novel Ever Written The Best Proletarian Novel Ever Written
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Comparisons between the Great Depression and current economic conditions "remain relevant," says the financial columnist Robert Samuelson—"and unsettling." Economic growth for this year's second quarter was a paltry 1.6 percent; unemployment hovers above 9.5 percent; sales of existing homes have fallen to their lowest rate in more than a decade; consumers show little sign of having recovered their confidence. At such a moment, American literature must surely be ripe for a revival of the Marxist-inspired "proletarian novel."
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