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First Principles
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At a Tikvah-sponsored summer program in Israel, a select group of students, educators, and intellectuals will revisit the founding ideas behind a state at once Jewish and democratic.
When Truman Wavered
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the months and days leading up to May 14, 1948, a fierce internal battle tested and all but swayed the President's support for a Jewish state.
The Enemy of My Enemy is Still My Enemy
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Scott Jaschik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The re-education of a Lebanese professor who made the mistake of collaborating on a pro-Palestinian book with two pro-Palestinian Israeli academics.
Linked In?
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is at the root of Middle East turmoil is a myth that has bamboozled Western policymakers, and crippled American foreign policy, for decades.
My Post-Zionist Encounter
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A conversation with a disgruntled Israeli reservist on his way to defend his country in 1982.
Being Jewish
Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thirty-five American Jews, including Rebecca Goldstein, Joseph Lieberman, Leon Wieseltier, and Ruth Wisse, offer brief answers to the questions of what it means to be a Jew today and what Jews bring to the world.
Our Man in Tel Aviv
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Michael Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Daniel Silva's bestselling spy novels, with their semi-reluctant warrior-hero, probe the intersection between Israel and the outside world.
Recovering Yiddish
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Beersheba, a university center headed by David Roskies works to retrieve a discarded part of Israeli cultural identity.
Two Palestines
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The increasingly permanent divide between Hamas and Fatah, each of them beholden to feuding foreign patrons, reflects wider regional realities and is shifting the Israel-Palestinian framework in ways still unclear.
Faith and Fate
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new book on the Jewish future by Britain's chief rabbi looks refreshingly outward—without, however, fully addressing the vexed issue of faith itself.