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Abbas’s No to Netanyahu’s YesWednesday, December 16, 2009 by Jonathan Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The freeze on building in Jewish settlements has earned little or no credit in Europe or among Israel's Arab interlocutors and foes.Rebecca and the Cash Nexus
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Daphne Merkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why do money and money-making figure so prominently in the literature provided by American Girl for its first Jewish doll?
Who Can Retell?Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the holidays of the Jewish year, Hanukkah may surpass even Passover in the sheer number and variety of the songs devoted to recalling, retelling, and rejoicing in the events of the past and their evergreen message. For American Jews of a certain age nostalgic for their childhood, Diane Ashton deftly surveys the English-language ditties of the 1950’s, from “Who Can Retell” to “I Had a Little Dreydl” and beyond. Today’s casual consumers have their pick of dozens of new CD’s in English, Yinglish, and Hebrew, folk, rock, and heavy metal, many of them rivaling the Christmas market for kitsch. But...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Martin Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The question for historians of Judaism is not whether Jews borrowed from Hellenism, but what they did with what they borrowed.” Richly illustrated.No Time to Be Silent
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Yair Sheleg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unless countered by religious moderates, increasing extremism in Israel’s national-religious camp will feed a corresponding extremism among secular Israelis.The Scrooge of Hanukkah
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Robert M. Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the dishonesty of Tony Judt.Amplifying anti-Semitism
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Laura Kam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the eve of a global conference in Jerusalem, a summary look at the role of media in the new wave of physical and verbal attacks on Jews.The Last Jews of Beirut
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Josie Ensor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The collapse of efforts to restore a historic synagogue signals the impending demise of a once-flourishing Jewish community.Inconvenient Truths
Monday, December 14, 2009 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Britain has never been much more than a fair-weather friend to Jewish national aspirations.”What Judith Did
Monday, December 14, 2009 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The legend of a brave and pious woman, and the lessons of Hanukkah.
