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Syria is BackThursday, May 27, 2010 by H. Varulkar and N. Mozes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Damascus, with the acquiescence of the Arab world, is once again the suzerain over Lebanon.Aryans of the World Unite?
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What, if anything, connects the words "Iran" and "Aryan" with Aryanism?
Measuring JewsWednesday, May 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1882, there were 24,000 Jews in the land of Israel, a tenth as many as in the United States at the time and a mere 0.3 percent of the world Jewish population. Today, a decade into the 21st century, Israel is solidifying its place as the cultural and demographic hub of Jewish life. Out of 13 million Jews worldwide, 5.7 million live in Israel, as opposed to an estimated 5.5 million in the U.S. Roughly 60 percent of Jewish Israelis are now native-born; fifty years ago, the same percentage was foreign-born. Despite an average monthly wage of but $2,100.00, most...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tariq Ramadan is only the latest in a long line of extremists whom Western governments have myopically tried to co-opt.Baghdad on the St. Lawrence
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An acclaimed master of the French Canadian literary scene offers a unique Iraqi-Jewish viewpoint on life.The Perpetrators
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-awaited book by the German scholar Peter Longerich is a clear, accessible, and authoritative history of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews.Is Baseball a Zionist Sport?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Theodor Herzl would have endorsed the playful utopianism of a game struggling to take root in Israel.Reclaiming a Cochin Synagogue
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A massive restoration project will refurbish one of the oldest and most beautiful houses of worship in the heart of what was once Jewish India.
Israel’s Home FrontTuesday, May 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At precisely 11 A.M. tomorrow, May 26, the sirens of war will echo throughout Israel. The army is conducting its annual week-long series of home-front drills to prepare the police, hospitals, emergency services, volunteer agencies, and civilians to cope with the possibility of an unprecedented onslaught of rockets or missiles laden with high explosives or chemical warheads. Authorities are presenting the exercise as routine. Although civilians who can do so have been instructed to enter a protected area like a communal bomb shelter or private reinforced-concrete room, those for whom participation in the drill would cause "unreasonable disruption" have been advised...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Avner Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the judgment of the leading historian of Israel's nuclear program, nothing supports the allegation that Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the mid-1970s.