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Not-So-Intelligent DesignWednesday, October 24, 2012 by Spengler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Intelligent design” proponents, including prominent observant Jews, see the theory as reconciling science and faith. Would that it were true.
The Portuguese DreyfusWednesday, October 24, 2012 by Kevin Zdiara | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1894, the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason by an anti-Semitic French military court. The world remembers Dreyfus. It should also remember the Jewish military officer Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, wrongly convicted by an anti-Semitic Portuguese military court in 1937.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 by Daniela Berretta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Kabbalah is most widely known in its Madonna-patented celebrity version. But Jewish mysticism's real home is Safed, which attracts a different sort of tourist.
Biblical PoliticsTuesday, October 23, 2012 by Alan Mittleman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Michael Walzer is a pivotal figure in the recovery of the Jewish political tradition. From his early book, Exodus and Revolution, which traced the impact of the Exodus story on Western politics, through his editorship, with Israeli colleagues, of the projected four-volume Jewish Political Tradition, Walzer is almost unrivalled as a scholar of Jewish political thought.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
They graduated from American colleges, read American literature, and traveled in America. So, why did these immigrant poets insist on writing in the little-read language of Hebrew?Telling Israel Like It Is—In Arabic
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Philippe Assouline | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Boshra Khalaila, an Israeli Arab, has suffered for defending Israel internationally. “But to be accused of treason,” she says, “is the price you have to pay to make a difference.”God Bless the Science
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Baruch Sterman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Judaism has a blessing for even the most mundane of occasions. What is the blessing, then, that a researcher should recite upon making a spectacular scientific discovery?Game Theory Discovers the Torah
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sophisticated game theorists have established the optimal formula for human well being: the covenants of justice and mercy established between God and Noah after the flood.Likud: the New Labor?
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Avi Shushan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Likud once distinguished itself from Labor by paying some attention to Sephardic Jews. But to judge by the current candidates, “today’s Likud is identical to the party it once loathed.”