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The Islamic Revolution Lives
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Tony Badran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For the Iranian regime, dissociating the Arab peoples from their governments remains a vital aim; in Lebanon, through Hizballah, the effort is succeeding.
The Rationalist
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Sami Peretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On his 80th birthday, the Nobel laureate Robert Aumann pronounces on the Turkish flotilla, the American bank rescue, the Arab-Israel war, and his relations with his wife and children.
Hillel’s Tent
Monday, July 19, 2010 by E.B. Solomont and Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Jewish student organization is determined to be open to diverse views and to reach out to the unaffiliated; some say it lacks backbone and neglects the middle for the fringe.
Wunderkind
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Kobi Nahshoni | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A fourteen-year-old prodigy is allowed to take the exam for rabbinic ordination in Israel, but the results won't count.
Hatikvah at Bergen-Belsen
Monday, July 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

April 20, 1945: for a BBC broadcast, emaciated survivors of the Nazi death camp defiantly sing the Jewish national anthem. (Audio)
Just One Word: Plastics
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Dagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On some kibbutzim, capitalist ends are served by socialist means.
Ugaritic, Unriddled
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An ancient Semitic language has been re-deciphered in record time by MIT computers, creating a bonanza for biblical studies.
Sticking It to Jerusalem
Friday, July 16, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, has published a multi-article series that is outrageously biased against the Jewish state.
On the Ninth of Av
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Frank Talmage | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Catalonia, the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and horrors, a student of history is beset by a torrent of emotions. (PDF)
British Jews and Israel
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Graham and Jonathan Boyd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

According to a comprehensive survey, a solid majority of UK Jews say Israel plays a "central" or "important" role in their Jewish identities. (PDF)