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Not So Great HouseFriday, February 18, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why a much-praised novel by Nicole Krauss wasn't on my list of best Jewish books of 2010.When in Doubt, Slam Israel
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will the Obama administration vote for a UN resolution condemning Israel that it doesn't want to vote for?Blind Pity
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Brendan O'Neill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the very moment when the Palestinian issue has become less important to the Arabs, it has become of the utmost symbolic importance to the Western Left.
The Riddle of the SatmarThursday, February 17, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prospect terrifying to secular Israelis and Zionists worldwide has been the rapid growth of the Jewish state's ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Given the stranglehold of haredi political parties on recent coalition governments, and the encroachments by non-Zionist haredi clerics upon Israel's chief rabbinate, once religiously moderate and firmly Zionist, the fear is not entirely irrational.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Marianne Lavelle | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The fallout from Egypt's revolution is propelling an Israeli revolution—in renewable energy.World of our Fathers
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is patrilineal descent not catching on in Reform communities outside the U.S.?Berlin Calling
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Maya Sela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's National Library and the German government are partnering to make some of the cultural treasures of the German-Jewish past available online.Qaddafi’s Captive
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Yoav Fromer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli artist sent to photograph Libya's once-thriving Jewish community ended up arrested, tortured, and spending five harrowing months in jail.Kosher Game
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Aaron Kagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Your grandmother may not have used gazelle in her stuffed cabbage, but several species of game are kosher and increasingly available from adventuresome farmers.Tale of a Tub
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Frank D. Roylance | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Beneath an historic Baltimore synagogue, archeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest ritual-bath complex in the United States.
