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Voice of the EastFriday, November 5, 2010 by Philip Hollander | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For Israel's Ashkenazi public, Mizrahi music, a distinctly local creation, went virtually unheard for decades; all that has changed.What Hath Freedom Wrought?
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Gal Beckerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More wide-ranging than profound, Philadelphia's new National Museum of American Jewish History avoids a serious consideration of religion, or Israel, or the mixed consequences of freedom. (With photos)
The Next UN Security CouncilThursday, November 4, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israelis are not alone in rolling their eyes at the mere mention of the United Nations. Thanks to blocs of like-minded nations with interlocking leaderships and overlapping interests—the 53-member African Union, the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, the 118-member "non-aligned" movement—an anti-Western and anti-Zionist tyranny of the majority has long been assured.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A documentary claims to demonstrate Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian olive harvesters. It doesn't.New Wave Outrage
Thursday, November 4, 2010 by Richard Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The honorary Oscar soon to be awarded to the director Jean-Luc Godard is more than a kerfuffle; it's a scandal.A Voice Crying in Ramallah
Thursday, November 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Zainab Rashid, a Palestinian reformist, argues that Islamism is hijacking her people's aspirations even as Arab regimes exploit their cause.Hitler and the Germans
Thursday, November 4, 2010 by A.J. Goldmann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Berlin exhibit aims at helping today's Germans understand how their countrymen embraced the Nazi dictator and condoned his violent and genocidal policies.Half-Shabbos
Thursday, November 4, 2010 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does "big-tent" Orthodoxy have a place for teens who send text messages on the Sabbath?For Hebrew Sailors
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1773 Hebrew-English-Spanish lexicon includes a glossary of terms for life on the high seas.
The Jewish Saul BellowWednesday, November 3, 2010 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Does Saul Bellow (1915-2005) need an introduction? Nobel laureate, three-time National Book Award winner, famed for his capacious mind and his profoundly idiosyncratic, sky-reaching prose, a lifelong generator of personal and public controversy, Bellow was also the unrivaled paragon, during his life and after his death, of American Jewish letters. But readers of the massive new collection of the novelist's letters might be forgiven for wondering in what sense Bellow was a Jewish writer at all.
