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The Tombs SpeakTuesday, June 21, 2011 by Jacki Lyden | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the Roman-era burial site of Beit Sh'arim, messages in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, incised into stone coffins, reflect the inner world of an ancient Jewish community.
Is Israel’s Labor Party Finished?Tuesday, June 21, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What has become of Israel's left-wing Labor Party some five months after its leader, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, abruptly defected to establish his breakaway Atzmaut (Independence) Knesset faction?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 by Warren Kozak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The wretched survivors of Hitler and of Arab cruelty were taken in by their fellow Jews and helped to get back on their feet; imagine if, like the Palestinians, they had been kept stateless for generations.
The Tourist’s DilemmaMonday, June 20, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On the southwest coast of Albania on the Ionian Sea, opposite the Greek island of Corfu, beneath the modern town of Saranda, lies the ancient city of Onchesmos. That ancient city had a synagogue.
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Louis René Beres and John T. Chain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran should never have been allowed to proceed toward full and illegal nuclearization; if the intolerable becomes real, what can Israel do?The Missing Letter
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
George Washington wrote a famous letter on religious liberty to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island; copies abound, but for decades the original has lain forgotten in a suburban warehouse.Wading into Hezekiah’s Pool
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An ancient water source, lately an impromptu garbage dump for residents of Jerusalem's Christian Quarter, is claimed by at least three different religious bodies.Home as Found
Monday, June 20, 2011 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk lived the bohemian life of 1950s America to the hilt, only to find what he needed on returning to Tel Aviv; his latest book tells the raucously turbulent story.Torah with an Open Mind
Monday, June 20, 2011 by William Kolbrener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As against religious fundamentalists and doctrinaire secularists alike, an Orthodox literary scholar proposes an engaged connectedness with Jewish sources. (Interview by Jeffrey Goldberg.)Does Israel Know What It’s Doing?
Friday, June 17, 2011 by Lazar Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Analysis of the Jewish state's responses to recent military and political challenges yields a surprising answer: yes.
