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Can Jews Write History?Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his well-known book Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, historian Eric Hobsbawm made the remarkable assertion that “no serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist.”
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Raphael Ahren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In spite of Netanyahu's past battles with Obama, and his obvious preference for Mitt Romney, Israeli analysts are hopeful that the two leaders can work together.The Shtetl Remedy
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Elizabeth Alpern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now that it’s cold season, you could place your hopes in chicken soup and a flu shot. Or you could try cupping, blood-letting, eating garlic cloves, drinking milk-and-alcohol mixtures . . . (2010)1979: What Are the Settlements For?
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Minutes of Israeli cabinet meetings from October 1979 reveal a dispute between Ariel Sharon and Ezer Weizman as to whether West Bank settlements were a security necessity or a liability.Obama’s Foreign Policy Cliff
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Mark Landler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With crises in Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Obama faces national security threats across the Middle East; but his top priority will be Iran's nuclear program. Very Superstitious
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Eli D. Clark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While science and technology have supplanted magic and the occult in the West, Jews have not only retained old superstitions, but invented some new ones.