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Love Conquers AllMonday, June 14, 2010 by Naomi Schaefer Riley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Intermarriage may or may not make for a religiously tolerant society; but does it make for happy marriages?Tribe of One
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Stephen Burn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a novel of manic excess, Joshua Cohen portrays a world where, even though—or because—only one Jew survives, Jewishness is all the rage.
What Israel Ta-Shma SawMonday, June 14, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the 7,000 new titles featured in Israel's annual book festival last week was the fourth, final, and—sadly—posthumous volume of studies by Israel Ta-Shma (1936–2004), one of the great rabbinic scholars of modern times.
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Ted A. Smith and Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new report on Israel by the U.S. Presbyterian Church bears false witness against Jews and the Jewish state.Questions for Amos Oz
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Dina Porat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The renowned author asserts that "Hamas is an idea." What kind of idea, exactly?Changing the Geopolitical Game
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Gal Luft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The recent discovery of a gigantic deposit of natural gas can not only solve Israel's own energy predicament but create an export bonanza with strategic consequences.
Psychoanalysis: A Jewish Science?Friday, June 11, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How Jewish was your childhood home? To this query, Anna Freud responded: "more than people think, and less than I remember." Her quip does double duty: illustrating the porous boundaries of memory, fact, and interpretation that psychoanalysis has sought to clarify and disturb, and highlighting a question surrounding the enterprise since its inception. How Jewish is it?
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How is the Jewish state to survive?Meet the Ironic Orthodox
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On its left wing, Orthodoxy harbors a generation mixing literacy and adherence with an absurdist attitude toward traditional religious structures.Eastern Europe, Online
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Shoshana Olidort | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A multi-volume YIVO encyclopedia opens a free window onto 1,000 years of Jewish life.