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History Repeating ItselfMonday, January 17, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just like many villagers in the Galilee before them, a plurality of east Jerusalem Palestinians want to remain Israelis. Will they be able to?News from Shushan
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The tomb of Mordecai and Esther in Iran is no longer a protected site. Will UNESCO step in?
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.Eternal Love
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of the New Jerusalem Orchestra, which fuses contemporary jazz, ancient piyyutim, and Middle Eastern rhythms. (Video.)B’shallah: Earning Eternal Enmity
Friday, January 14, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
At the very end of this week's portion, the newly freed Israelites are attacked by Amalek. After the attack is rebuffed, and after Joshua, the Israelites' commanding officer, inflicts casualties on the aggressors, Moses declares (Exodus 17:16): "God will wage war against Amalek from generation to generation." Who were the Amalekites, and how did they earn God's eternal enmity?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.
