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Cretins against Israel
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 by David Aaronovitch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On Gilad Atzmon, Alan Hart, and other fixtures on Britain's media circuit of anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish bilge.
On the Ninth of Av
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 by Frank Talmage | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Catalonia, Spain, once the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and achievement, a student of Jewish history is beset by a torrent of emotions.
The Demagoguery Days of Summer
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Amotz Asa-El | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

America's anti-market policy has already bred disaster. Is this what Israel's "tent protesters" have in mind for the Jewish state?
Is Egypt’s Revolution Finished?
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, the only viable way forward—from demonstrating to organized political activity—remains perilously elusive.
The Self-Centered Life
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why observe the Torah's commandments? Because, says an Orthodox rabbi channeling Oprah, they make you feel good about yourself.
“Friendship Jew”
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the perils of cross-cultural exchange as experienced by a Jewish Peace Corps volunteer in Guiyang, China.
The Jewish Berber Queen
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Dahia al-Kahena, a powerful monarch and formidable warrior, may have tragically paved the way for the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 C.E.
Imaginary State
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Steven J. Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A majority of the world's countries are gearing up to recognize a Palestinian state in September. But does Palestine really qualify?
Inside the Slaughterhouse
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Uriel Heilman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Bred for kashrut, raised by Mennonites on kosher-for-Passover grain, inspected by a man who writes Hebrew science fiction in his spare time: the life of one kosher chicken. (With photos.)
Real Zionism
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel is moving toward an equilibrium between socialism and capitalism—and thus closer to the social welfare society envisioned by Herzl.