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Where Have All the Volunteers Gone?Friday, July 1, 2011 by Leslie Lenkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the 1990's, the Harvard social scientist Robert D. Putnam triggered national hand-wringing over his book Bowling Alone, which showed plummeting rates of voluntary and charitable activities among Americans, a people known since de Tocqueville's day as the world's most public-minded citizenry.
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Ehud Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In front are the do-gooders; behind the scenes is a "red-green" alliance of far-Left, anti-Israel Westerners and radical Islamists who know exactly what they're doing.Excusing the Inexcusable
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
German foundations tainted by associations with the Holocaust have in turn tainted with their money the work of reputable European historians.Minority Report
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Were it not for Israel, the Jews of the Middle East would be as fearful, vulnerable and oppressed by the Sunni majority as every other religious minority in the region.Sitting Shiva for a Word
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Only non-Jews could have redefined the quintessentially Yiddish "shtick" to mean what Vice-President Biden had in mind in invoking it.The Coming Storm
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Tal Becker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It will take energy and luck to deal with the Palestinian initiative at the UN in September; it will take more to manage the situation afterward. (PDF)God’s Army?
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Arieh O'Sullivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ever since religious Jews began filling leadership positions in the IDF, some have been worrying about potential disloyalty to the state—so far, without reason.
In the Wake of the AltalenaThursday, June 30, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ships and their comings and goings have lately been a fixation over at Haaretz, Israel's chief left-wing newspaper. One of the paper's advocacy journalists has been writing enthusiastically about joining up with a pro-Palestinian flotilla that intends to smash Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Robert Wistrich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The controversy over a cancelled research program at Yale raises the question of why the academic study of anti-Semitism has come so late to the U.S.Morning After
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Out of the limelight, post-overthrow Tunisia has made substantive progress toward democratization; but the end is still not in sight.