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Liberal and Learned?Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Leon A. Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The current emphasis on "personal choice" has dumbed down Reform Judaism. The solution: fostering a committed core of erudite and deeply engaged adherents.
The Life of PrayerTuesday, May 17, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Prayer has never been easy, as the Psalmist well knew: "For there is no word on my tongue; You, O Lord, know them all" (139: 4). And even if there are words on the tongue, the results can be distressingly uncertain, or worse: "My God, I call out by day and You do not answer; by night, there is no respite for me" (22:2). It hasn’t gotten easier since then.
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Jeffrey Herf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A specter is haunting Egypt: popularly legitimated anti-Semitism resulting from electoral gains by the Muslim Brotherhood.Why South Koreans Love Judaism
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Tim Alper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Most may not know what is involved in being a Jew, but Stories from the Talmud is a Korean bestseller and the government has included it in the primary-school curriculum.The King’s Nasty Speech
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Ruth King | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Colin Firth, who played the anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist George VI to perfection, is now set to play Avraham Stern, one of the king's fiercest opponents in Jewish Palestine.Germany Takes Sides
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across the political spectrum, Germans are making Israel the whipping boy for all the problems of the Middle East.Her Secret Life
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
María López, who chose baptism over expulsion from Spain in 1492, was later convicted of Judaizing and burned at the stake. Was she a crypto-Jew, or wasn't she?Defining Nakba
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The "sacred destination" of the Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas has declared, is the "return" of millions of 1948 refugees and their descendants to what is today Israel.
O CanadaMonday, May 16, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In striking contrast to the treatment Jerusalem has been getting from its fair-weather European allies and a fickle Obama administration, there stands, of all countries, Canada. Why "of all countries"? Because none of this was preordained. Until lately, Canada's relations with Israel have essentially followed the trajectory of those with Western Europe—that is, starting out warm and turning increasingly frosty.
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The first strong gesture made by the reconciled parties of Hamas and Fatah was to condemn the killing of bin Laden. That, and the deafening silence greeting their pronouncement, says it all.
