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My Year of Reading Books
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

You will not know Judaism by dressing like a Hasid for a few months.
Liberalism, Zionism, and Peter Beinart
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Liberals have long had their problems with Zionism—which, among other things, is a critique of the enduring deficiencies of liberalism.
Eichmann at Fifty
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Shimon Samuels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A half-century after Israel captured and tried the draftsman of the Holocaust, another gray bureaucrat, in Tehran, plots with genocidal intent.
Address to the Graduating Jewish Cadets, West Point
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

War is no joke, and radical innocence is no match for radical evil.
The Crown of Aleppo
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Tamar Yellin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The history of the oldest Hebrew Bible codex reflects the history of the Jews: exile, upheaval, struggle, and rebirth.
Call It Awake
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Charles McGrath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new posthumous novel has emerged out of the papers of Henry Roth, author of the 1934 American classic, Call It Sleep.
Through a Canvas Darkly
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Cracking the riddle of a forged copy of a self-portrait by the 19th-century Dutch Jewish artist Jozef Israels.
The Rewards of “Resistance”
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Bashar Assad believes, with reason, that he can get further by negotiating with Washington than by negotiating with Israel.
Bible Breakthrough?
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A study group asks whether, with computer technology, it might become possible—or necessary, or desirable—to reconstruct the ur-text of the Torah.
Chaim Grade’s Legacy
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?