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The Forgotten Woman CantorThursday, March 31, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For nine years (1884–1893), Julie Eichberg Rosewald led services at San Francisco's Temple Emanu-El.
The Archeology WarThursday, March 31, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) was founded in 1979 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). It has three basic goals. The first is to spread a Saudi version of Koranic education throughout the Islamic world. The second is to publicize Islam to the non-Islamic world. The third goal is to oppose the "Judaization of Al-Quds"—i.e., Jerusalem.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whoever is responsible for it, the renewed violence against Israel is clearly a ploy to divert attention from the internal Arab upheavals and lure the U.S. back to the utterly bankrupt "peace process."Dominoes
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the monarchies of the Middle East have a fighting chance to reform and survive, the region's dictatorial "republics" have been toppling down. Syria is next.Chai Society
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Adam Pitluk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Traditionally excluded from Yale's secret societies, Jewish students founded Eliezer, a club and salon that has blossomed into an organization of global repute.Standing Up to the UN
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the American ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission in the mid-1990s, Geraldine Ferraro took a poised and principled stance against its demonization of Israel.
Gaza Endgame?Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A March 26 meeting in Ramallah between an unofficial delegation of West Bank Hamas "parliamentarians" and Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority and leader of the Fatah party, was ostensibly about reconciling the two factions. Actually it was about much more.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Louis Finkelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How many Jews have read the Romantic poet's "She walks in beauty" without a clue that it was written to be sung to a Sephardi liturgical tune?Tazria: Purity is Only Skin-Deep
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
At last, leprosy! Just when we've had our fill of tabernacle ornaments and animal sacrifices, the Torah shows us how arcane it's willing to get.Begin’s Prisoner’s Dilemma
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Daniel Tauber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a Soviet prison, the young Menachem Begin fought to remove the word "guilty" from a forced confession of his Zionist activities
