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Who Was Arafat?Monday, November 15, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the time of his death six years ago, he was more popular in France than among his own people; Western media still regularly omit mention of his terrorist attacks.Lovable Rogue State
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Kevin Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A nineteen-year-old Canadian presented a brilliantly audacious defense of Israel—but he won't be back to the Cambridge Union any time soon.Talking Canaan
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Edward L. Greenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language related to Hebrew, solves many a biblical puzzle.The Maghreb Myth
Monday, November 15, 2010 by David Littman and Paul Fenton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Interviewing the authors of a new book on the social and legal status of the Jews of North Africa that puts paid to the myth of Jewish-Muslim coexistence.
A Jewish Renaissance?Monday, November 15, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In recent years Israel has become a vast open-air laboratory for experiments in Judaism, re-fashioning rituals, reading old texts through new lenses, scrambling and fracturing familiar dichotomies between secular and religious. Secular yeshivot, mainstream performers singing medieval Hebrew hymns, non-denominational "prayer communities" in hip Tel Aviv, kabbalistic therapy movements, Judaism festivals on once-socialist kibbutzim—something is going on here, but what?
Monday, November 15, 2010 by Dan Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York's WhiskyFest brought out "more kippahs than kilts."Murky Turkey
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why most Turks do not know even the rudimentary facts about Hamas, let alone anything about what really happened on the Mavi Marmara.In Retreat
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Jeff Landaw and Martha Landaw | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Legal inflexibility and blanket opposition to change are rendering modern Orthodoxy less modern and more Orthodox, argues an Orthodox rabbi.Iran’s Arab Puppet
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Farid Ghadry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Syrian President Assad is flexing his muscles, but Iran is pulling the strings.A Saint of the Ledger
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recently auctioned account book reveals a Cincinnati rabbi's valiant and meticulously recorded efforts to rescue European Jewish leaders from the Nazis.
