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Against Dwelling Apart
Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Steven Bayme | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

According to British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, contemporary Jews have internalized a mindset of victimhood that falsifies their strengths and endangers their future.
From Hillel to Hookups
Thursday, August 19, 2010 by David Wilensky, Levi Prombaum, and Judah Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Three students give a failing grade—"out of touch," "irrelevant"—to an updated guide to Jewish campus life.
The American Schindler
Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Fiona Govan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Varian Fry rescued 4,000 European Jews, among them many prominent artists and intellectuals, from the Nazis; only now is the extent of his work coming to light.
We Do Not Need or Want This Mosque
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Abd al-Rahman al-Rashed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The planned mosque at Ground Zero is bound to become "an arena for the promoters of hatred and a monument to those who committed the crime" of 9/11—and most Muslims are against it.
How Bad Was Jezebel?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Janet Howe Gaines | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Every biblical word condemns her, but is there not something—much—to admire in this ancient queen?
The Conversion of David Mamet
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Terry Teachout | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To explain the political evolution of America's most famous playwright from a Left-liberal to a conservative, one might begin with his earlier writings about Israel and Judaism.
Border Patrol
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The 1949 armistice lines were not a recognized international boundary, and they only invited Arab aggression; renaming them the "1967 borders" will not change history or bring peace.
Am I Helping the Boycotters?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jonathan Cristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even hostile articles about the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement are claimed as victories by the anti-Israel campaign; so why am I writing this one?
Of Dhimmitude and History
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two new and very different accounts of Muslim attitudes toward Jews are problematic, each in its own way, on the subject of anti-Semitism.
Kissing Cognates
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jerome Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How Akkadian, the cuneiform language of a third-millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian dynasty, sheds fascinating light on the Hebrew Bible.