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Welcome and Unwelcome
Monday, September 26, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Would Palestinian refugees be granted citizenship in a Palestinian state? According to the PLO's ambassador to Lebanon, no.
A Century of Rejectionism
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Fred Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What has inspired the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise?
Desperately Seeking S’lihot Desperately Seeking S’lihot
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

There was a time, not so very long ago, when the Saturday night preceding Rosh Hashanah was the rough equivalent of the season's opening at the Met for opera enthusiasts.
Genesis and Allegory
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Eli Clark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The claim that science and Scripture represent two distinct fields of inquiry is very much on the margins of traditional Jewish thought.
Barack, Humbug
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Martin Krossel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recent article claims Obama as "the first Jewish president" by making cheap shots and distorting the president's record.
How Jewish Should Brandeis Be?
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Linda K. Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To its new president, the Massachusetts university is "both an open nonsectarian institution and a school that has deep roots in the Jewish community." What does this mean in practice?
The Real Crisis in the Middle East
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It's not Palestinian statehood.
Loaves and Wishes
Friday, September 23, 2011 by Vered Guttman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On Rosh Hashanah, cuisine becomes a system of meaning. (With recipes)
“Corrected against My Own Book”
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Moses ben Maimon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Oxford's Bodleian Library has made its famous manuscript copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law available online in its entirety.
Jewish in Turkey
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A community depleted by decades of out-migration insists that it feels completely at home; in private, speaking not for attribution, many voice fear—or defiance.