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The Dreyfus of Classical MusicMonday, March 26, 2012 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once vilified by Schumann and Wagner for not being German enough, now Giacomo Meyerbeer's music is criticized for not being Jewish enough.Beinart the Unwise
Monday, March 26, 2012 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What is wrong with The Crisis of Zionism is contained within its title: Zionism itself is not in crisis. The liberal Zionism that Peter Beinart espouses is. Eric Kandel’s Visions
Monday, March 26, 2012 by Alexander C. Kafka | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is the Nobel-winning neuroscientist who's spent most of his career fixated on sea snails writing on art history? It may have a lot to do with his background as a Viennese Jew . . . Socially-Conscious Study Hall
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 19th-century letter attests to a London institution, open to anyone from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily, that was responsible for creating numerous charities and a school for children.Profiling the Professionals
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Steven M. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the work of Jewish communal agencies is a much-studied topic, remarkably little attention has been paid to the professionals who staff them—until now.
Ardor, or Architecture
A look inside three of the twentieth century's most interesting careers in architecture: the world-renowned Israeli Moshe Safdie, on the verge of shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970; the Polish-born, polarizing Daniel Libeskind, now at work on rebuilding New York's World Trade Center; and the mythic postwar master Louis Kahn.
Six LiesFriday, March 23, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A look inside three of the twentieth century's most interesting careers in architecture: the world-renowned Israeli Moshe Safdie, on the verge of shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970; the Polish-born, polarizing Daniel Libeskind, now at work on rebuilding New York's World Trade Center; and the mythic postwar master Louis Kahn.
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Aaron David Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From the recklessness of election-year politics to the Capitol Hill Knesset: here, a half-dozen of the worst leaps of logic about U.S. politics and Middle East policies.Burial in Israel
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Jessica Ravitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Forty percent of practicing French Jews are buried in Israel. They aren't alone in wanting this, for reasons that run all the way back to Genesis—but aren't without controversy.Führer Fictions
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Richard J. Evans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What might do as research for a novel won't do as preparation for a serious work of history, and one celebrated novelist's biography of Hitler is nothing short of a travesty.Together We Stand
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the wake of the murders in Toulouse, all of France must stand united against anti-Semitism, which is an attack on the republican ideals which all of France holds dear.