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Is Israel a Strategic Asset?Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In fact, it is a strategic bonanza, and the Middle East needs more states like it: strong, reliable, democratic, pro-American allies. (PDF)Hate Bait
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An open sewer of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish venom runs through the "Comments" sections of some of America's most prestigious foreign-policy websites.When I Am Laid in Earth
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Eric Yoffie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The increased informality of Jewish rituals leads to funerals that showcase the eulogizers instead of the deceased.Religion’s Place
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by James Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An online Italian daily interviews the renowned Bible scholar on religion and war, Jewish and other orthodoxies, Zionism, and relations between church and state today.The Jewish Caruso Sings Again
Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On three compact discs, the owner of a Brooklyn record shop has digitally restored the voice of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt.
All That (Israeli) JazzThursday, July 22, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Add jazz to the growing list of fields in which Israelis are taking their place among the international elite. As the American magazine JazzTimes gushed in May 2008, "When it comes to jazz, Israel is the source of an almost miraculous outpouring of talent."
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Instead of defending its own actions and values, the Jewish state needs to introduce the world to its enemies'.
Another Madoff Casualty?Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Shrunken and wizened, the American Jewish Congress lies on its evident death bed, debilitated by a loss of raison d'être as much as by Bernard Madoff's financial depredations. Under the circumstances, reflections on the spotty record of its approach to Jewish life, or on waste and duplication in the alphabet soup of the Jewish organizational world, may forgivably give way to a brief look at the once-proud agency's origins and purposes.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by Susie Linfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No one has described the victims' experience, in Auschwitz or in Rwanda, more brilliantly than Jean Améry, the Jewish resistance fighter and survivor of the Nazi genocide. No one understands it less than today's advocates of forgiveness.Why Hasn’t Israel Bombed Iran (Yet)?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The military risks are serious; the political risks could be monumental.