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The State of Arab StatesTuesday, May 18, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the twenty-two members of the Arab League, an Arab writer finds not a single representative state; actually there is one, if a fragile one.Scotland’s Jewry
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Billy Briggs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.
Book of Ruth
The biblical book of Ruth, read later this week on the holiday of Shavuot, works in brief, gentle strokes to limn a powerful story of loss, recovery, and redemption. The story takes place in harvest season, in a prosaic world in which the actions of divine providence are coterminous with the yield of human goodness. "This scroll speaks neither of impurity nor purity, neither of forbidden nor permitted," says a famous midrash. "And why was it written? To teach you how great is the reward of those who mete out lovingkindness" (Midrash Ruth Rabbah 2:16). The theme asserts itself in the book's...
Way WestMonday, May 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The biblical book of Ruth, read later this week on the holiday of Shavuot, works in brief, gentle strokes to limn a powerful story of loss, recovery, and redemption. The story takes place in harvest season, in a prosaic world in which the actions of divine providence are coterminous with the yield of human goodness. "This scroll speaks neither of impurity nor purity, neither of forbidden nor permitted," says a famous midrash. "And why was it written? To teach you how great is the reward of those who mete out lovingkindness" (Midrash Ruth Rabbah 2:16). The theme asserts itself in the book's...
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Polina Olsen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a new, richly documented history of Jewish settlement along the Pacific coast, the frontier spirit created something unique in American Jewish experience.Israel’s Elites
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thanks to the ethos of Zionism, the country's business, political, and defense elites are integrated; its anti-Zionist elite, by contrast, is almost entirely Ashkenazi.Captivated by the Scrolls
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Tibor Krausz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a late-life summing up, the prolific Oxford scholar Geza Vermes has published a comprehensive look at "the miraculous discovery and true significance" of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community that produced them.The Banality of Anti-Semitism
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Steeling oneself against an evil that presents itself with an ordinary, innocuous face.Radical Islam and Western Liberals
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Anthony Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his new study of contemporary political morality, Paul Berman exposes the repudiation by liberal intellectuals of liberal values and ideals.Iran’s Jews: How Much Longer?
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Parvaneh Vahidmanesh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the remnants of a once-proud community.Love Among the Relics
Friday, May 14, 2010 by Peggy Cidor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A distinguished Jerusalem museum would have remained in Canada had the collector not fallen for a tough-talking New York businesswoman with a vision.