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An Infinite Spirit?
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Ruth Franklin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The marketing of Anne Frank's diary offers a pungent case study in the distortion of a particular Jewish experience in favor of the "universal."
Israel go Bragh
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Yoel Matveev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In propounding a state run according to the tenets of Jewish law, was Israel's first chief rabbi influenced by Irish nationalism?
Unearthed
Friday, March 11, 2011 by ChaeRan Freeze | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In advance of the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, a Brandeis exhibit features the work of a painter who defied the Soviet regime by depicting its victims as the Jews they were. (With images)
Hail
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Miri Freud-Kandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A book-length assessment of Britain's current chief rabbi leads to the question of whether the office he holds should be abolished.
Talmud for Beginners
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A now-completed translation of the Talmud into modern Hebrew (and, partially, into English) has made a notoriously difficult text accessible to the Jewish layman.
Egypt’s Choice
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by David Makovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

When it comes to peace with Israel, Egypt's leaders will have to navigate between populist antagonism to the Jewish state and the Egyptian national interest.
Norman Podhoretz and I
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While grateful for my friendships with Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, I was looking for a champion—both of America and of the Jews. Eventually I found him. (Part three of a three-part series.)
Lost and Found
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Sam Dolnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

More than a thousand works of Jewish scholarship missing from a German collection have turned up at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
Identity = ? Identity = ?
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In discussions of that elusive entity known as "Jewishness," few terms have become so ubiquitous, and as a consequence so elusive, as "Jewish identity." The phrase regularly serves as the name of a communal dream: the wished-for end product that vast apparatuses of education, institution-building, and programming aim to instill and perpetuate. But what is it?
Facts on the Ground
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by JosĂ© Ramos-Horta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At this point in time, writes the president of East Timor, the West Bank is an oasis of economic progress and tranquility in a region of turmoil.
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