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The Other Existential Threat
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The mere possession of a nuclear weapon by Iran would restore Jews to a condition in which their futures once again depended primarily on the choices made by their enemies.
Clergy Monopoly
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Barak D. Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Centralized searches by American denominations to fill the position of rabbi are not only illogical, they're illegal.
Trust Bust
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In exchange for an extension of the freeze on settlement construction, Obama has offered Israel an impressive amount of political and military support. So why is Netanyahu likely to decline?
Friends Indeed
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It was the 2004 Madrid bombings that convinced José María Aznar, then the prime minister of Spain, that "the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel."
The Divine Sarah
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Graham Robb | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Sarah Bernhardt rose from humble origins to become the world's most famous actress; but about the "real" Bernhardt, including the Jewish Bernhardt, there seems little to report.
The Ground beneath His Feet
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A Ramallah lawyer has written a book about walking through the hills in a path that is increasingly circumscribed because of Israeli land grabs—or is it?
A Royal Return
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Ran Shapira | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two thousand years after an Assyrian queen converted to Judaism and visited Jerusalem, her sarcophagus has returned to Israel.
Kosherize Me
Monday, October 4, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In her new book, Sue Fishkoff notes that the expansion of the kosher food industry has, ironically, caused kosher food to become invisible.
Fidel the Philo-Semite?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Jaime Daremblum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Denouncing anti-Semitism so as to ingratiate himself with American Jews, the Cuban dictator cannot help betraying his conspiratorial belief in an all-powerful Jewish lobby.
Not Your Grandfather’s Sukkah
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Shari Saiman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From the Fall issue: an architectural competition produces a number of visually impressive entries better at capturing the sukkah's impermanence than its capacity to embrace and ennoble.