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The Rewards of “Resistance”Friday, May 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bashar Assad believes, with reason, that he can get further by negotiating with Washington than by negotiating with Israel.Israel and the OECD
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joining the club of market-economy democracies will no doubt assist Israel's development and is a welcome "seal of approval," but the country needs more internal reforms.The State of Arab States
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the twenty-two members of the Arab League, an Arab writer finds not a single representative state; actually there is one, if a fragile one.Scotland’s Jewry
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Billy Briggs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.Mentored by Gauguin
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Paris exhibit reestablishes Meijer de Haan, an energetic painter inspired by Jewish themes, as a considerable artistic force.
Israel’s Nuclear WeaponsTuesday, May 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 5, 2009, speaking before throngs of supporters in a Prague square, President Barack Obama declared America's commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. With this as an apparent impetus, the Arab world has pressed for greater international attention to . . . Israel's nuclear activities. It did so most recently at a Washington conference devoted to keeping nuclear materials out of terrorist hands, and at a subsequent review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York. Under Arab prodding, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., issued a statement calling...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Avi Shafran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A holiday characterized by no specific ritual act, Shavuot recapitulates the Israelites' embrace of the Torah at Sinai in a mood of perfect acceptance.Shavuot: Covenant and Meaning
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by David Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who better exemplifies the contract between God and the Jews: the Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, or the Abraham empowered by God to argue with Him?Captivated by the Scrolls
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Tibor Krausz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a late-life summing up, the prolific Oxford scholar Geza Vermes has published a comprehensive look at "the miraculous discovery and true significance" of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community that produced them.The Banality of Anti-Semitism
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Steeling oneself against an evil that presents itself with an ordinary, innocuous face.