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Fifth ColumnWednesday, October 19, 2011 by Steven Plaut | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hundreds of professors and lecturers, employed by Israel's state-financed universities, are building careers as full-time activists working against the very country in which they live.Who’s a Zionist?
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Those who support policies that endanger Israel, suggests the founder of J Street.Absolute Citron
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 by Miriam Krule | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"It's easier to grow 2,000 acres of oranges or lemons than to grow one acre of etrogs," says California citrus farmer John Kirkpatrick, the only large-scale grower of the fruit in the U.S. Academe Award
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 by Elli Fischer and Shai Secunda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Set in the Hebrew University's Talmud department, Footnote is a film of serious philosophical inquiry, cloaked in winking academic gossip for those in the know. Does Anyone Speak Arabic?
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 by Franck Salameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arab nationalists promoted the idea that anyone who speaks Arabic is an Arab. But for centuries, very few Middle Easterners have spoken the language called standard Arabic.The Marriage of Semite and Anti-Semite
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 by Julie Orringer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Aharon Appelfeld's newest novel, an Austrian Jewish woman's disastrous marriage to an anti-Semite is much like European Jewry's disastrous marriage to Austria and Germany.The Genesis of Exodus
Monday, October 17, 2011 by Martin Kramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where did "historian" Rashid Khalidi come up with the idea that Leon Uris' bestselling novel was commissioned by a public relations professional on behalf of Israel?Evil Urge
Monday, October 17, 2011 by Amit Gevaryahu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new work tackles one of the most entrenched myths in the academic study of Jewish sources: namely, that Judaism has historically been a sex-positive religion.The Iranian Connection
Monday, October 17, 2011 by Martin Indyk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The successful Shalit release deal and the failed plot to bomb the Saudi ambassador both show Iran's fading influence in the Arab world.Shaken, Not Stirred
Monday, October 17, 2011 by David Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In developing innovative storage techniques for lulavim (palm fronds), Israel's technological prowess went head-to-head against an Egyptian embargo, and won.

