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A Bridge Too ShortWednesday, June 9, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Taking a closer look at Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird, a self-declared builder of bridges between Jews and Arabs.
A Zionist Citadel?Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The annual meeting of the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem takes place this week in Israel's capital. Not unlike the state that it preceded into existence, the university, opened 85 years ago on Mount Scopus in northeast Jerusalem, is in the throes of crisis.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Statements by Islamist participants in the Gaza flotilla.An Intractable Conflict
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Alex Grobman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the platform of Hamas insists, the fundamental objective of Islamism is the defeat and destruction not only of Israel but of "whoever supported or supports it."Why I Defend Israel
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The maelstrom of hatred and madness about Israel is a triumph of disinformation, hypocrisy, and bad faith on the part of, among others, my fellow European leftists.Land of Milk and Honey
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Thomas H. Maugh II | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 3,000-year-old apiary throws new light on the economy of the biblical period.The New Middle East
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Josef Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Next to Iran, Turkey, a member of NATO, is the West's biggest headache.Poles, Jews, and Nazis
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In telling a twisted, terrible history, where to strike the balance?
The Chief RabbinateMonday, June 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On May 23, Israel's chief rabbinate issued new regulations requiring prospective couples whose parents had been married by someone other than a rabbinate-approved rabbi to apply, along with their mothers, for a full inquiry into their Jewishness. The regulations provide for inquiries into the Jewishness of other couples as well. In the meantime, making deft use of its authority over conversions to Judaism, the rabbinate has acted to delegitimize other rabbis, in particular from the Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist movements, as a whole. Founded as a body that would help unify the modern Jewish state, the rabbinate (Hebrew: rabbanut) has...
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Shoshana London Sappir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 18th-century Suriname synagogue joins similar structures from Germany, Italy, and India now on display at the Israel Museum.
