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What Does Turkey Want?
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Seth Cropsey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The increasingly convergent paths of Turkey and Iran, two of the Middle East's largest, most powerful, and most influential states, is creating a geostrategic crisis of the first order.
Sympathy for the Devil
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why is it accepted wisdom that Israel and not Hamas—repressive, fascist, a murderer of Palestinians and Americans—has set back "peace"?
What’s to Investigate?
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

That civilians were killed on the Mavi Marmara is no cause for pride, but under the circumstances nothing to be ashamed of.
Life from the Lab Life from the Lab
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Led by J. Craig Venter, genetic scientists have created a partially synthetic, self-replicating bacterial cell. According to an account in the May Science, the team built a synthetic genome from scratch and then put it into a living natural cell. Although the result does not qualify as a truly synthetic life form, Venter's achievement has been hailed as bringing us "a step closer to artificial life" and as a "defining moment" in the history of biology.
The Return of the “Exodus”
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1947, the New York Times editorialized against Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade of Palestine; today it editorializes against Israel's "attack" on the blockade-running "aid flotilla."
Remembering the Farhud Pogrom
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Karam Mnashe and Charles Recknagel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In June 1941, murderous Baghdad mobs assaulted the city's Jews in a precursor to the purging of an ancient community.
In Hungary, the Return of the Repressed
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Paul Hockenos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Jobbik, the anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist party that captured 17 percent of the Hungarian vote in April, emerged out of the country's young, educated "Facebook generation."
Goodbye Scholarship, Hello Relevance
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At Conservative Judaism's rabbinical seminary, an era comes to a close.
Carrying Hamas’s Water
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by J.E. Dyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It will now be up to the United States and Europe whether the Gaza coast, just miles from the Suez Canal, becomes a source of international instability.
In Support of Israel
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A grass-roots initiative is circulating on the Internet.