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Music in the Kingdom of DeathWednesday, June 1, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Formally launching this week is a website featuring more than 100 recordings and more than 300 articles devoted to Jewish music composed and performed during the Holocaust.Toward the Multiplex Shul
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Reuven Spolter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More and more congregants prefer to pray in more intimate surroundings and for shorter periods of time; herewith, a modest proposal for their (increasingly abandoned) rabbis.The Third Man
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Missing from the Netanyahu-Obama drama in Washington was Mahmoud Abbas, the man who really torpedoed the peace process.Two Sisters
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Comparing Jacqueline and Gillian Rose, the former a vociferous and overrated campaigner against Israel, the latter a formidable and underrated figure in Jewish and Christian thought.Holding Firm
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Alana Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to Israel, the "progressive" Left is increasingly out of sync with American attitudes—and, in the main, with the attitudes of the Jewish community. Teiku
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In matters of faith, we must often acknowledge that, in company with some of the greatest rabbis, we do not have answers. (Others beg to differ.)
The Anthropology of AIPACTuesday, May 31, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few events in contemporary American Jewish life generate as much passion as the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), held in Washington this year on May 22-24. The best way to view the over 10,000 conference participants may be in terms of a tribe or small society.
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Ronit Vered | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On display at a museum in Jerusalem is the largest and most beautiful collection of Crusader kitchen utensils ever discovered in Israel.
Remember the FarhudMonday, May 30, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The end of 2,500 years of Jewish life in Iraq began during two days in June 1941. For 30 terrifying hours, mobs of marauding Iraqi Arabs, soldiers and civilians alike, killed 137 Jews and injured thousands more, pillaged scores of homes, and destroyed more than 600 Jewish-owned businesses.
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Relinquishing Israeli control of most of the West Bank is one thing: relinquishing a military presence is something different.
