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HailFriday, March 11, 2011 by Miri Freud-Kandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A book-length assessment of Britain's current chief rabbi leads to the question of whether the office he holds should be abolished.Bagels, Baseball, . . . Bush?
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A powerful political divide separates Jews in Israel and in the United States—but the underlying issue isn't who's in power in Jerusalem, it's who's in power in Washington.An Infinite Spirit?
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Ruth Franklin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The marketing of Anne Frank's diary offers a pungent case study in the distortion of a particular Jewish experience in favor of the "universal."Egypt’s Choice
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by David Makovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to peace with Israel, Egypt's leaders will have to navigate between populist antagonism to the Jewish state and the Egyptian national interest.Norman Podhoretz and I
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While grateful for my friendships with Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, I was looking for a champion—both of America and of the Jews. Eventually I found him. (Part three of a three-part series.)Lost and Found
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Sam Dolnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than a thousand works of Jewish scholarship missing from a German collection have turned up at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.Facts on the Ground
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by JosĂ© Ramos-Horta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At this point in time, writes the president of East Timor, the West Bank is an oasis of economic progress and tranquility in a region of turmoil.Talmud for Beginners
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A now-completed translation of the Talmud into modern Hebrew (and, partially, into English) has made a notoriously difficult text accessible to the Jewish layman.Meet the Robot Snake
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Inventions in the robotics lab of Ben-Gurion University will help ready the IDF and other militaries for this century's evolving high-tech battlefields. (Video)Irving Howe and I
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An association with the most ideologically rigid of the New York intellectuals was cemented by a mutual devotion to Yiddish literature and buffeted by disagreements over issues of Jewish moment.

