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Cemetery PoliticsWednesday, September 1, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the many bones its various enemies pick with the Jewish state, one has been much in the news lately: bones, very dry bones, residing in cemeteries both real and imagined all across the country.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Norman Podhoretz's break with the Left led to one of the most dramatic moments in American and American Jewish history of the last half-century; a new biography tells the whole story.Mutual Enemies, Mutual Interests
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Ksenia Svetlova | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Kurds want Israelis to know they have friends in the Middle East—perhaps their only ones.Ancient Plastic?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Aisha Mohammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thousands of recycled flint shards have been found in a fire pit near Tel Aviv: the world's oldest known disposable knives?Unleavened Politics
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a declassified 1976 document, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the president of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel discuss the shipment of matzah into the Soviet Union.What is Moderate Islam?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about Islam; six leading thinkers weigh in. A symposium.Both Sides Now
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Trymaine Lee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Black Orthodox Jews, who form insular but highly energized communities, are making inroads in public awareness.
Arab Moderates: Help, or Hindrance?Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At the re-launching of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, attention will be focused on Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu. But Egypt's ailing president, Hosni Mubarak, will also be in attendance, as will Jordan's King Abdullah II. To maintain their bona fides as Arab moderates, the two men helped cajole Abbas to resume face-to-face negotiations with Israel. So did other Arab states in the U.S. orbit, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Rahel Musleah | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yasmin Levy, whose music is like a "deep pool of exquisite yearning and heartbreak," is the international voice—and face—of Ladino song.Crackdown in France
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Devorah Lauter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
President Nicolas Sarkozy's tough new security-related initiatives have earned widespread denunciation—but not from French Jews.
