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Irresponsible Elites
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Seth J. Frantzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recent poll shows that the average Israeli thinks there is "too much freedom of expression"; might these findings have something to do with the reckless civic example set by a coterie of anti-Zionist academics?
Spirits on Parade
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Baz Ratner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A museum exhibit focuses on Jewish beliefs about angels, demons, and spirits and the practical uses of magic in daily life.
Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by John Bolton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the administration resigned to a strategy of post-nuclear containment, the case needs to be made for the necessity of Israeli pre-emption.
Haim Saban
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Connie Bruck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Israeli-American entertainment mogul, heavy Democratic donor, and fervid Clinton supporter is unhappy with administration policy.
The Kaufmann Project
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A survey, with images, of the life, the work, and the manuscript collection of a prodigious 19th-century Jewish scholar.
Another UN Human-Rights Farce
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Anne Applebaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Having pulled out all stops to keep Iran off the Human Rights Council, the U.S. and its allies are now faced with Teheran's appointment to the Commission on the Status of Women.
Mearsheimer’s List
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The political scientist famous for warning about the cabal steering America away from its true national interests has carved out an exemption for certain "righteous Jews." Echoes of Father Coughlin?
Debating Iran
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Roger Cohen and Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the nature and intentions of the Islamic Republic, and what to do about them: a live faceoff.
Was There an Exodus?
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Israel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hershel Shanks interviews a controversial historian of biblical Israel.
Under Swiss Eyes
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Simon Erlanger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A tiny fragment of Switzerland's population, Jews still bear the image of the essential Other against which Swiss identity has long defined itself.