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Philanthropist I and Philanthropist II
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Michael S. Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While American Jewish philanthropists tend to create new institutions from scratch, the Jewish community also needs people to maintain what we already have. 
The Real Enemy
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Abdulateef Al-Mulhim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care, and the infrastructures instead of wars?”
Darkness on the Deep
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“Is Genesis’s description of the universe at its inception, before the creation of light, a radically reimagined, reworked and de-mythologized rendering of the Babylonian legend?”
Hitler’s Greatest Enemies
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“One truth we can affirm: Hitler had no greater, more courageous, and more admirable enemies than Hans von Dohnanyi and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.”
Torah, She Wrote
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Amy Spiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite the talmudic prohibition on women being scribes, growing numbers of women outside the Orthodox world are writing Torah scrolls. 
Hollande Takes the Hard Line
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Bruce Crumley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After a series of attacks against Jewish targets in France, Sunday’s anti-terror raids show that François Hollande is prepared for a fight with the country’s Islamists. 
Category Error
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The focus of Yoram Hazony's History of Israel, and of most of the Hebrew Bible, is not on "discover[ing] the true and the good in accordance with man's natural abilities," as he thinks . . . 
Last Chance to Quiz Granddad
Friday, October 5, 2012 by David Crossland | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Historian Moritz Pfeiffer intended his new book about his own grandparents’ Nazi past to encourage others to question their aging relatives. But young Germans just want to move on.
Marching in Malmo
Friday, October 5, 2012 by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Facing a hostile population and an unsympathetic mayor, anti-Semitic attacks have become a matter of course for the Jews of Malmo, Sweden. But now they are fighting back. 
For Whom the Pell Tolls
Friday, October 5, 2012 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Michigan Jewish Institute was a small college until it received $25 million in federal Pell Grants; now it is an online university—and its students are learning in Israel.