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Religious MachoThursday, May 26, 2011 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi and mystic wants his followers to visit Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, where a student was shot to death by Palestinian police, precisely because it is dangerous.
The Russian WaveThursday, May 26, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, some one million Jews have come to Israel from the former Soviet Union (FSU), enlarging the country's population by 25 percent and forming the largest concentration in the world of Russian Jews. They have left their mark in almost every walk of life. And yet, as a group, they are still something of a mystery.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by David Schenker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until now, Washington has imposed little cost on Damascus for its support of terrorism; with Gates v. Syrian Arab Republic, now on appeal, that may begin to change. (PDF) The Shalit Test
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once Fatah and Hamas finalize their planned unity government, they will no longer be able to disclaim responsibility for the Israeli soldier kidnapped five years ago; how will Israel, and how will the West, respond?Laughing in the Darkness
Thursday, May 26, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A film about Sholem Aleichem, the rebellious genius who plumbed the depth of a Jewish world in crisis, and captured it with brilliant humor, will open in New York in July. (With trailer; video)Digging the First Shuls
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by Eric M. Meyers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Excavations in Israel over the past decades suggest that the synagogue may be a considerably older institution than once thought.
No Springtime for Palestinians?Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his May 19 speech celebrating the Arab Spring, President Obama expressed enthusiasm for the "movements for change" that have been unseating tyrants previously supported or tolerated by the United States. In language echoing that of his despised rival George W. Bush, he adopted as his own the idea of promoting democracy in the Middle East.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Jonathan Rynhold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why Israel cannot accede to a complete military withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines: the reason has little to do with the Palestinians. (PDF)The Contradictions of anti-Semitism
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Stanley Fish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are Jews a success story, or a plague? Victims, or victimizers? Devils, or God's chosen people? Thoughts on an "oversaturated" and shape-shifting stereotype.I Believe in Israel
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Richard Kemp | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan decries the "anti-Israel conspiracy" and pays tribute to the soldiers of the IDF, "who sacrifice so much for the defense of Israel and for our Western democratic values." (Transcript)
