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Abraham, Inc.Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Jon Kalish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Klezmer meets hip-hop as clarinetist David Krakauer teams up with trombonist Fred Wesley, Jr. (Audio.)
Measuring JewsWednesday, May 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1882, there were 24,000 Jews in the land of Israel, a tenth as many as in the United States at the time and a mere 0.3 percent of the world Jewish population. Today, a decade into the 21st century, Israel is solidifying its place as the cultural and demographic hub of Jewish life. Out of 13 million Jews worldwide, 5.7 million live in Israel, as opposed to an estimated 5.5 million in the U.S. Roughly 60 percent of Jewish Israelis are now native-born; fifty years ago, the same percentage was foreign-born. Despite an average monthly wage of but $2,100.00, most...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tariq Ramadan is only the latest in a long line of extremists whom Western governments have myopically tried to co-opt.Baghdad on the St. Lawrence
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An acclaimed master of the French Canadian literary scene offers a unique Iraqi-Jewish viewpoint on life.The Perpetrators
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-awaited book by the German scholar Peter Longerich is a clear, accessible, and authoritative history of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews.Is Baseball a Zionist Sport?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Theodor Herzl would have endorsed the playful utopianism of a game struggling to take root in Israel.No Sale
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Avner Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the judgment of the leading historian of Israel's nuclear program, nothing supports the allegation that Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the mid-1970s.My Year of Reading Books
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
You will not know Judaism by dressing like a Hasid for a few months.Liberalism, Zionism, and Peter Beinart
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Liberals have long had their problems with Zionism—which, among other things, is a critique of the enduring deficiencies of liberalism.Free Speech and the Knesset
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why the right-wing Speaker of the House has vigorously opposed a move to revoke the immunity of Arab members who visited Libya.