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Rebel with a Cello
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Ezra Glinter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Playing with classical orthodoxies, the work of the Israeli musician Maya Beiser is inspired by cross-cultural influences. (With video.)
Love Conquers All
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Naomi Schaefer Riley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Intermarriage may or may not make for a religiously tolerant society; but does it make for happy marriages?
Tribe of One
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Stephen Burn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a novel of manic excess, Joshua Cohen portrays a world where, even though—or because—only one Jew survives, Jewishness is all the rage.
Old Habits Die Hard
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Ted A. Smith and Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new report on Israel by the U.S. Presbyterian Church bears false witness against Jews and the Jewish state.
Questions for Amos Oz
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Dina Porat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The renowned author asserts that "Hamas is an idea." What kind of idea, exactly?
Adult Children of the Dream
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Lawrence Rifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Of the 270 kibbutzim in Israel, many are doing very well indeed. But what now defines a kibbutz?
The Samaritans’ Temple?
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Chaim Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At the peak of Mount Gerizim lie the well-preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old city.
Changing the Geopolitical Game
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Gal Luft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The recent discovery of a gigantic deposit of natural gas can not only solve Israel's own energy predicament but create an export bonanza with strategic consequences.
Israel’s War, and Ours
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How is the Jewish state to survive?
Meet the Ironic Orthodox
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On its left wing, Orthodoxy harbors a generation mixing literacy and adherence with an absurdist attitude toward traditional religious structures.