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The Myth of Israeli Competitiveness
Thursday, July 7, 2011 by Yagil Weinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite its few successes, Israel's economy is severely hobbled by inefficiency, low productivity, and the stranglehold of private/public monopolies. Time for a revolution?
The King’s Talmud
Thursday, July 7, 2011 by Geoffrey Clarfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why Henry VIII needed to consult the Talmud, and what happened to the multi-volume edition he imported to England.
Dumb in Dublin
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by John Lalor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Irishman wonders how, given his country's appalling moral obtuseness, Israelis can love it as much as they do.
Palin’s Pals
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Benyamin Korn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In conservative "new media," an ethnically diverse and intellectually powerful vehicle for pro-American and pro-Israel voices, Jews have become increasingly prominent.
Message from the Emperor
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Mark Harman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A vignette by Franz Kafka, first published in a Prague Zionist journal in 1919, tells a Chinese tale as an allegory of messianic longings.
Whose Woods These Are
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Ralph Gardner, and Jr. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the trail with the "adventure rabbi," seeking the divine in the great outdoors.
Studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Jean Duhaime | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a collection of essays, scholars consider and reconsider their methods of understanding the ancient manuscripts and the world in which they were composed.
I Was a Teenage Zionist
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two teenage attendees of the same Zionist summer camp came away with radically different impressions and, as adults, have ended up in virtually opposite places. 
Music is My Religion
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Lea Penn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ravid Kahalani's eclectic style and soulful singing in Hebrew, Arabic, and sometimes Creole are helping to make his band Yemen Blues an international sensation.
The Churches Against Israel
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The World Council of Churches, 590 million strong, has not a word to say about Islamists persecuting Arab Christians—but has declared the Jewish state a sin, and "resistance" to it a Christian duty.