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Mystical PleasuresWednesday, March 23, 2011 by Peter Cole | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There isn't a great deal of kabbalistic poetry, but the best of it epitomizes a potent if lesser-known aspect of Judaism. (Interview by Robyn Creswell)
Shakespeare, Much Improved?Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Nahma Sandrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the few things people think they know about Yiddish theater in America is that once upon a time there was a production, probably of King Lear, advertised as "translated and much improved." Joel Berkowitz's history, Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (2002), quotes the line but never gives an attribution, which suggests that nobody ever actually said it. But someone might have.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by A. Al-Mulhim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the view of a retired Saudi naval commander, the Arab spring would have come much sooner had the Arab world accepted Israel in 1948.The Road to Itamar
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
I was there. I saw that settlement, I saw the house where that family was destroyed. I spoke to people there. The way it's been reported misses so much.Nietzsche Revisited
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the writings of the philo-Semitic (or anti-anti-Semitic) philosopher become the inspiration for the murderers of European Jews—and who, today, are his ideological counterparts?The First Woman Rabbi
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 17th century, Asenath Barazani ran a yeshiva in Kurdistan and was addressed by her colleagues as master, rabbi, and teacher.So Israel Wasn’t the Problem?
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Rich Lowry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The last few months should have finally shattered the illusion that the Israeli-Palestinian question is the key to everything in the Middle East.The Church of Israel Divestment
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Mark Tooley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as the American religious Left has kept relatively silent about Muammar Qaddafi's war against his own Libyan people, it continues to promote anti-Israel initiatives.
The Fate of Muslim ModeratesMonday, March 21, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent uprisings in the Middle East seemed, at least at first, to send a reassuring signal to Western observers: not only did genuinely moderate Muslims exist, and not only were they capable of finding a political voice, but there was reason to hope that, given time to organize and grow in strength, they might succeed in winning out against the voices of repression and Islamist extremism.
Monday, March 21, 2011 by Nicolas Rapold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jack Garfein survived Bergen-Belsen to become a monumental figure of the American theater and make two films
