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Iran, Turkey, Israel
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Hassan Haidar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In their competition for regional dominance, Tehran and Ankara are separately attempting to subjugate Israel and hasten America's withdrawal from the Middle East; will they succeed?
Bad Moon Rising
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For one more sign of the failure of American Middle East policy, see Ankara's increasingly vigorous identification with and sponsorship of the Islamic "resistance."
What Israel’s Friends Need to Remember
Friday, June 4, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Whatever Israel's military may have done poorly, it did not do wrong.
Down Kingston Way
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thousands of Jamaicans have Jewish roots, but most have long ceased to identify themselves as Jews and a community dating back 350 years is moribund.
One People, After All?
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Sharon Begley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a new scientific paper, a team of geneticists report that the Jews of the Diaspora share telltale genetic markers suggestive of a common ancestry.
“Hook Noses, Mosaical Whiskers,” and British Theater
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Onstage caricatures of Jews in the 18th century would give way, in time, to 19th-century idealizations.
What Does Turkey Want?
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Seth Cropsey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The increasingly convergent paths of Turkey and Iran, two of the Middle East's largest, most powerful, and most influential states, is creating a geostrategic crisis of the first order.
Hypocrites, Inc.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Blockades have been used for centuries by both Britain and America, on the whole with extremely good effect.
Rallying for Israel
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Jessica Elgot | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an unusual, very public demonstration, over 700 supporters of Israel mobilized outside its London embassy in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident.
A Messianic Mystic
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Hartley Lachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Newly translated essays by the scholar Isaiah Tishby introduces one of the most fascinating personalities and important thinkers of 18th-century Italian Jewry. (PDF)