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Show Me the Way
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Lester Feder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A journalist with little Jewish background encounters an African-American Hebrew congregation.
Israel and Western Surrender
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Shelby Steele | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Islamic rage meets the West's deficit of moral authority, and the Jews are being scapegoated again.
Iran and the U.S.: Who’s Containing Whom?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Marc Ginsberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Exploiting uncanny resourcefulness, new alliances, terror, and American dithering, Iran has achieved impressive results.
Antioch Divide
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Adele Reinhartz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Examining the stark attitudes toward Judaism of the early Christian theologian Ignatius, a new book revises current thinking about the "parting of the ways" between the two religions.
Jewish Treasures
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Jose Rodriguez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A magnificent collection of precious music, art, rare books, and historical archives has found a new home in California. (Illustrated)
Out of Eygpt
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Ari Greenspan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Visits to the dwindling Jewish communities of Alexandria and Cairo disclose remnants of a recently vibrant civilization.
Extreme Makeover
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel may pay the price of Washington's pursuit of "moderate elements" within Hizballah and other extremist groups.
Before Mao
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Matt Nesvisky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A visit to Harbin in China recalls a briefly vibrant Jewish community with a strong Zionist heritage that by the mid-1920s numbered 25,000 souls.
Cairo’s Election Omen
Monday, June 21, 2010 by J. Scott Carpenter and Dina Guirguis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Voting for Egypt's upper house was marred by low turnout, fraud, and violence: a portent of next year's presidential election?
Not of This World
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

First he read ardently from Israel's Declaration of Independence and Psalm 137; then the pianist Evgeny Kissin played a fiery Chopin Scherzo and accepted an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University.