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Not the Catskills
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Stacey Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The global summer community in Chautauqua, New York has become a flourishing retreat for Jewish learning and culture.
A Man for a Few Seasons
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Recovering Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935), a distinguished French-Jewish scholar, president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, staunch assimilationist, shortsighted opponent of Zionism.
Europe’s Road to the Mosque
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Walter Laqueur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How far will European societies go in accommodating a fast-growing minority that to a considerable extent is opposed to them?
Friends of Zion
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Jews did the heavy lifting, but the contribution of gentiles to the rise of the Jewish state was strategically crucial.
The Binational Fantasy
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

One has to be blind, ignorant, thoroughly insensitive, or all three to think that Jews and Palestinians could maintain a democratic life after being thrown into a single political cauldron.
The Rothschilds of the East?
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Richard I. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At a recently closed Paris exhibition: the munificent artistic legacy of a family whose career began in Istanbul in the late 18th century and ended at Auschwitz.
Customs and Ceremonies
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On a massive 18th-century book that illustrated the diverse religious lives, and the underlying common humanity, of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, native Americans, and Jews.
Sisera Was Here
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Is a round, 3,200-year-old bronze tablet part of a linchpin from the Canaanite general's war chariot?
Making Music to His Name
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed?
The Flotilla: An Interim Balance Sheet
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.