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Fascinated by Hebrew?Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Asaf Shtull-Trauring | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new website offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to all matters relating to the modern language.
Who’s Against a Two-State Solution?Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Two states, living side by side in peace and security." This, in the words of President Barack Obama, is the solution to the century-long conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East. Washington is fully and determinedly on board. So are the Europeans. The UN and the "international community" vociferously agree. Successive governments of the state of Israel have shown their support for the idea. So far, there is—just as there has always been—only one holdout.
Monday, July 19, 2010 by E.B. Solomont and Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Jewish student organization is determined to be open to diverse views and to reach out to the unaffiliated; some say it lacks backbone and neglects the middle for the fringe.Wunderkind
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Kobi Nahshoni | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A fourteen-year-old prodigy is allowed to take the exam for rabbinic ordination in Israel, but the results won't count.Hatikvah at Bergen-Belsen
Monday, July 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
April 20, 1945: for a BBC broadcast, emaciated survivors of the Nazi death camp defiantly sing the Jewish national anthem. (Audio)
Tisha b’Av NowMonday, July 19, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Tomorrow is Tisha b'Av, the traditional day of fasting and lamentation for the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the sorrows of Jewish history. But ours is a moment of unprecedented Jewish sovereignty and unparalleled Jewish prosperity. And so, many are asking, why bother?
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Tony Badran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the Iranian regime, dissociating the Arab peoples from their governments remains a vital aim; in Lebanon, through Hizballah, the effort is succeeding.The Rationalist
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Sami Peretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On his 80th birthday, the Nobel laureate Robert Aumann pronounces on the Turkish flotilla, the American bank rescue, the Arab-Israel war, and his relations with his wife and children.On the Ninth of Av
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Frank Talmage | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Catalonia, the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and horrors, a student of history is beset by a torrent of emotions. (PDF)British Jews and Israel
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Graham and Jonathan Boyd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a comprehensive survey, a solid majority of UK Jews say Israel plays a "central" or "important" role in their Jewish identities. (PDF)
