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Speaking of HebrewMonday, April 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Over time, successful social transformations lose their capacity to amaze. So it is that we forget just how astounding was the modern revival of Hebrew as a language suitable for all aspects of life. Of course, Hebrew never really died; throughout history it was the written language of scholarship and religious thought, and the spoken and sung language of prayer. This rich and multi-layered legacy was mined by the Zionist writers, linguists, and educators who over decades would painstakingly bring forth the modern Hebrew language. Among the questions they had to settle was how, exactly, to pronounce it. The decision was to...
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Antony Polonsky's sweeping new history of East European Jewry is a triumph of erudition, clarity, and balance—and an eloquent rebuke to academic obscurantism.What Does Israel’s Censor Censor?
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Christoph Schult | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An interview with the state's guardian of publishable intelligence: "Only up to one percent of all items submitted . . . are totally disqualified."Verdi at Theresienstadt
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Jim Lowe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Vermont, a performance of Verdi's Requiem will commemorate the imprisoned Jews whose singing defied their Nazi persecutors.Politics and Britain’s Jews
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Richard Millet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the run-up to the May 6 general election, the issue of Israel is being shamelessly manipulated by more than one British party.Two Palestinian Authorities
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The political divide between Ramallah and Gaza is no more reconcilable than the same, larger divide in the Middle East as a whole.The Women of Modern Orthodoxy
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nuances in a campaign for religious leadership: it's not all about becoming rabbis.“My Home Now”
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Nurit Wurgaft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On being German and non-Jewish and living in Israel.
Muslim Anti-SemitismFriday, April 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The prevalence of deep anti-Semitism in many parts of the Muslim world is one of today's scarier phenomena. To some, it can also seem mysterious. To be sure, Jews regularly suffered persecution under the Crescent as they did under the Cross, but not with the same sustained ferocity. Nor did Islam ever bring forth a racially-infused hatred of Jews like that of the Spanish Church—or, in our own times, the Nazis. Until, that is, the Nazis themselves got into the act. Since then, and to an extent previously unparalleled in Muslim history, Jews and Judaism have been demonized beyond all proportion...
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The power of the growing India-Israel connection is only beginning to make itself felt.
