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Women’s Surprising Defenders
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Caroline B. Glick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why do ultra-Orthodox Jews dominate an Israeli rescue enterprise that by rights ought to be the cause of secular feminists?
The Palate of Algiers
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Dennis Wasko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The large and ancient Algerian Jewish community is all but gone; its cuisine remains.
Let’s Talk About It
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Akiva Novick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A pioneering course of instruction helps rabbis to advise religious couples on problems in the bedroom.
Bellow and I
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Remembering a friendship based on personal affection and a shared love of literature and language, and tested by decades-long disagreements.
What’s the Agenda?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An 11,000-word essay by New Yorker editor David Remnick proves once again how irrelevant to most Israelis, and to most Americans, is the view that Israel is the culprit in the Middle East.
Chagall in Paris
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Philip Kennicott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A Philadelphia exhibit shows the encounter of the desperately poor and isolated Russian Jewish artist with a world whose love he craved and, with mixed results for his art, won.
How the End Begins
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Richard Rhodes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ron Rosenbaum's speculations on the prospect of nuclear war are most acute in his treatment of Israel's struggle to forestall "Hitler's chain reaction" in the Middle East.
A Moment to Savor
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the wake of several recent anti-Semitic incidents, who would have thought that Jews could pick up a newspaper to discover that the leading voice in their defense is the Pope?
The Zionist Imperative
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Marla Braverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Solidarity, a grand leitmotif of Jewish history, is today not a matter of choice; where, in particular, support for the state of Israel is concerned, it is a matter of necessity.
Biblical Seductions
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the hands of a sexual-harassment attorney, six key narratives in the Bible receive a bold and creative interpretation.