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It Sounds Better in AmharicThursday, August 26, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his one-man play, It Sounds Better in Amharic, the Ethiopian-born Israeli actor Yossi Vassa humorously contrasts life in the old world and the new, mulling over the differences between traditional and modern ways of dating and the respective virtues of traveling by donkey or Lamborghini. He also narrates his family's 400-mile journey from Ethiopia to Sudan—from where, in 1984, the Israeli air force flew 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Vassa's family covered the 400 miles on foot, in three months. "Not to brag," he comments, "but it took the children of Israel 40 years."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A collection of Japanese figurines illuminates the history of the European Jewish dynasty who owned it.Back to Day School
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why Jewish schools are an increasingly comfortable choice for bicultural, biracial, and interfaith families.
Zionism Derangement SyndromeWednesday, August 25, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A smoldering resentment, bordering on political paranoia, is palpable in sectors of Israel's Left these days. Everywhere, it seems, powerful enemies are conspiring to undermine the centers of cultural influence that leftists have long regarded as their own property, and as beyond criticism. Their response bears a resemblance to the left-wing American affliction that the columnist Charles Krauthammer memorably labeled "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was the destruction of Pompeii an act of divine retribution?Ki Tavo: The Mystery of Goodness
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
By David Hazony Nearing the end of his farewell address to the Israelites, Moses describes a peculiar ceremony they are to perform after entering Canaan.Beyond the Age of Ideology
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Steven M. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Engaged young American Jews are significantly more interested in culture, social justice, and Jewish learning than in external threats to Jews, Judaism, or Israel.The Old, the New, the New New
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Amnon Rubinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A prominent Israeli scholar, columnist, and politician talks about five books on his country, from politics and peoplehood to land and society.Notes on Encampment
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Christopher Hawthorne | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Sukkah City," an architectural competition to re-imagine the traditional tabernacle, has announced its twelve finalists.Fighting Irish
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Ben S. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A precocious Cork student was the pride of Ireland—until she volunteered for the IDF.
