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Aux Armes
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Montreal, lately beset by violence, a growing underclass of Muslim immigrants has brought with it a contempt for European cosmopolitanism and heavy doses of anti-Semitism.
No Man’s Land
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Charles Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why are men less involved than ever in the Conservative movement? And what can be done about it?
Turmoil in Tunisia
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even as one exults in the power of the disenfranchised to overthrow a cruel dictator, the implications of the Tunisian upheaval are hardly all sunny.
A Nice Little Family
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi is a sweeping historical novel of East European Jewry, and an eerie foretelling of that world's eventual fate.
The Worm Turns
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Jeffrey Carr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What's missing from the New York Times story naming the U.S. and Israel as co-developers of the Stuxnet worm?  The evidence.  
Sun Sets on “Israel Horizons”
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Gary Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Meretz USA has pulled the plug on a magazine that for more than a half-century was the English voice of left-wing Zionism.
Bald Jewish Women
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Three early-19th-century sources cite an edict demanding that married Jewish women shave their heads. Or was the report just a misunderstanding?
Combat Manual
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Training its soldiers in the new style of urban warfare, the Israeli army uses advanced technology to spare civilians and sacred buildings, both often put deliberately in harm's way.
The Cookbook Collector
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Dorothy Lipovenko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Rabbi Robert Sternberg, a dedicated aficionado of culinary literature, knows not only what kosher ingredient to substitute for oysters but the cultural back-story of many a Jewish recipe.
Amigos?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by D.S. Mariaschin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Twenty-five years after Spain and Israel established diplomatic ties, the relationship has landed on rocky terrain.