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All in the (Economic) FamilyFriday, October 15, 2010 by Sam Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"PM Orders Panel to Attack Economic Concentration," read the headline of a news story in the October 14 Haaretz. The high-level body, appointed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is tasked with proposing legislation to increase competition, restrict "large-scale pyramid-type holdings in public companies," and take other steps to improve stability and efficiency in the country's economy. Some worry that the move will fail, or that the hour is already too late. And thereby hangs a tale.
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Ari Shavit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seven reasons why Israel is right to insist on recognition as a Jewish state.East of Sweden
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Donald Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once, Jews sought refuge in Malmo; but Sweden has become "a microcosm of contemporary anti-Semitism," and many are fleeing to Israel.Favorite Son
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Judith Matloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Asserting its national identity, Belarus embraces Chagall the artist, but not Chagall the Jew.An Israeli Bubble?
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Amy Teibel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite perennial fears of war, Israel has emerged as one of the hottest property markets in the world, leading to fears of another kind.In Gaza, with Lattes and Rockets
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Peter Hitchens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent trip reveals a bustling consumer culture juxtaposed with thuggery and harsh clerical rule, where many pine for the days before the Hamas takeover.On the Bleeding Edge of the West
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A conversation in Jerusalem with David Hazony on war and peace, Israeli party politics, Kurdistan, Western democracy, the Ten Commandments, and Judaism's spirit of redemption.Under Oath
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What's behind the blind outrage that has greeted the proposed bill to require an oath of allegiance of naturalized citizens of Israel?
Let My People GoThursday, October 14, 2010 by Joshua Muravchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Soviet experiment was among the most momentous and catastrophic episodes in human history, and yet its passing went almost unnoticed. Considering that Soviet Communism was a manmade system that cost some 20 million lives directly, and perhaps another 100 million through wars and imitative experiments elsewhere, the attention paid to the events of 1989 and what led up to them has been remarkably sparse.
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Ron Charles | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his comic novel The Finkler Question, winner of this year's Man Booker prize, Howard Jacobson treats Jewish self-loathing and real live anti-Semitism with equal doses of wit and rage.