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The Enemy of My Enemy is Still My Enemy
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Scott Jaschik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The re-education of a Lebanese professor who made the mistake of collaborating on a pro-Palestinian book with two pro-Palestinian Israeli academics.
America in Hebrew Eyes
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Robert M. Seltzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Ha-Zefirah, a Warsaw daily, Hebrew-reading East European Jews in the late 19th century could learn, among other things, about an attractive, bustling, intriguing New World.
Singing the Yemen Blues
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From a childhood studying Torah to a career as a professional singer (and an expert in Serbian church music), Ravid Kahalani is returning to his Yemenite roots. Watch a recording session.
Mappings
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Tracing a word that seems to mean the same thing in Hebrew, English, and Latin.
Linked In?
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is at the root of Middle East turmoil is a myth that has bamboozled Western policymakers, and crippled American foreign policy, for decades.
My Post-Zionist Encounter
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A conversation with a disgruntled Israeli reservist on his way to defend his country in 1982.
Being Jewish
Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thirty-five American Jews, including Rebecca Goldstein, Joseph Lieberman, Leon Wieseltier, and Ruth Wisse, offer brief answers to the questions of what it means to be a Jew today and what Jews bring to the world.
Our Man in Tel Aviv
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Michael Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Daniel Silva's bestselling spy novels, with their semi-reluctant warrior-hero, probe the intersection between Israel and the outside world.
Tradition! Tradition!
Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

This week, the Schechter Institute, the chief educational institution of the Conservative movement in Israel, celebrated its 25th anniversary with the opening of two new buildings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.  Following decades of effort, the occasion marks a genuine milestone for the Masorti movement (to use its Hebrew name), a movement still struggling to establish a presence in Israel in the teeth of institutional opposition and public indifference.  Unlike Orthodoxy and Reform, already established as ideological movements in 19th-century Europe, Conservative Judaism, though tracing some of its roots to the 1850s, took shape in early-20th-century America, to become, in the...
Recovering Yiddish
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Beersheba, a university center headed by David Roskies works to retrieve a discarded part of Israeli cultural identity.
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