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Only in IsraelTuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dan Ephron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sayed Kashua is a bestselling novelist, satirist, and sitcom writer
Where Have All the Prophets Gone?Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Writing in 1911, Martin Buber declared that "the nature of the prophets" lives within the Jewish people. A hundred years later, do any Jews still believe this?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Jim West | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Piece by ragged piece, researchers are reconstructing the long-lost Hebrew text of the apocryphal book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus).Combat Manual
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Training its soldiers in the new style of urban warfare, the Israeli army uses advanced technology to spare civilians and sacred buildings, both often put deliberately in harm's way.The Cookbook Collector
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dorothy Lipovenko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rabbi Robert Sternberg, a dedicated aficionado of culinary literature, knows not only what kosher ingredient to substitute for oysters but the cultural back-story of many a Jewish recipe.
Science, Faith, and Biblical ArcheologyMonday, January 17, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Biblical archeology was born out of twinned desires: to "illuminate" the world of the Bible and, ultimately, to prove the truth of the Word.
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
All over the Muslim Middle East, Christians and Christianity are in fearful retreat.Artful Dodging
Monday, January 17, 2011 by J.J. Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does American Orthodox culture, while producing more than its fair share of lawyers and doctors, yield scarcely a single poet or painter?A Tale of Two Hatreds
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite the claims of some, "Islamophobia" is not Europe's new anti-Semitism, and the pretense undermines the fight against radical Islamic terrorists.What Light through Yonder Window Breaks?
Monday, January 17, 2011 by Eric A. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new, full-length feature film of Romeo and Juliet—in Yiddish, and made in the U.S.—is premiering this week; it is not the only recent effort of its kind.
