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Secularism and Its DiscontentsFriday, December 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The transformations of Jewish life in the last two-and-a-half centuries still boggle the mind. Deep ruptures opened to separate the present from the past, modernity from tradition, setting terms that have defined the contours of Jewish life until today. How did people try to think their way through the change?
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Armin Rosen and Jordan Hirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The newly launched Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University already shows signs of turning into a platform for an anti-Israel agenda.A Yeshiva Boy’s Christmas
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How one Jew learned to stop worrying and love the American Christmas season.Uprooting Beirut
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Habib Battah | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As Beirut's largest synagogue undergoes a massive government-funded facelift, the neighborhood's last Jew has been evicted from her home. (With photos)Intelligence Succession
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
During the tenure of Meir Dagan, about to step down as director of Mossad, Syria's nuclear weapons program was destroyed
The Continuing War for SafedThursday, December 16, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Safed (Hebrew: Tsfat) is a picturesque town of 32,000 souls nestled in the hills of Galilee. It is also home to a hardline branch of the Islamic Movement looking for ways to undermine Jewish sovereignty.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Kevin J. Madigan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rather than canonizing the controversial Pius XII, perhaps the Church should be honoring his more courageous predecessor, Pius XI.Palestine Past
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Palestine Exploration Fund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dozens of photos of the people and landscapes of 19th- and early-20th-century Palestine are now available online.Self-Portrait as a Jew
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Eunice Lipton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Viewing the introspective work of the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) on its own, not through the lens of his murder in Auschwitz.Osnat’s Story
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Daniel F. Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How an American teen learned to navigate social isolation, hatred of group tours, love of his host country, and the embrace of an Israeli family and their homely daughter.