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The Hamas-Fatah Two-StepFriday, January 14, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Frustrated by the diplomatic deadlock over negotiations with the Palestinians, many Westerners, and some Israelis themselves, have focused on the need to accommodate the demands of Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA).
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thirty years after his death, the French-Jewish novelist Romain Gary is in the public eye—though untangling his fabrications has proved a lengthy process. The Martyred Thirty-Five
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Michael Pitkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"This is the story I told my daughter Ruth as the fateful year of 1948 began." Remembering friends who went to help besieged Jews in the outskirts of war-torn Jerusalem.The Shepherd Hotel
Thursday, January 13, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a virtual tour, complete with photos and maps, a now-notorious site in Jerusalem is shown to be other than the "Palestinian landmark" it is claimed to be.Assisted Suicide
Thursday, January 13, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who is hurt most when the Western press gives credence to anti-Israel propaganda?The Other Good Earth
Thursday, January 13, 2011 by Hilary Daninhirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pearl S. Buck's Peony, written in 1948, tells the affecting story of a Chinese bondmaid sold into a Jewish family in Kaifeng. Sharing the Burden
Thursday, January 13, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why Jerusalem has approved a plan to bring 65 percent of young ultra-Orthodox men into military or national service by 2015.The Soul that You Have Given Me
Thursday, January 13, 2011 by Rowna Sutin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A setting by the late Debbie Friedman (1951-2011) of a morning prayer.
Ladino!Thursday, January 13, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Long overshadowed by its Yiddish cousin, Ladino—the "other" modern Jewish language, also known as Judeo-Spanish—has increasingly benefited from new waves of scholarly and cultural retrieval.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 by David Crossland | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
West Germany could have hunted down Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the Holocaust, as early as 1952, eight years before Israeli agents caught him in Buenos Aires.
