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Fortune Favors the BoldMonday, August 27, 2012 by Forsan Hussein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
He used to work on a building site. Now he’s got an MBA from Harvard and runs the Jerusalem YMCA. But the life story of this Israeli Arab is both an inspiration and an indictment. (Interview by David Horovitz)Bias at the Beeb?
In 2004, the BBC commissioned a report to allay public fears that its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was partial. Now it has spent half a million dollars to ensure that the report isn’t released.Both Same and Different
Monday, August 27, 2012 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Many of the differences between Judaism and Christianity are not greater than the differences within Judaism or Christianity itself. (PDF; pp.4-8)
How the Sinai Peacekeeping Force Staged a Military Coup in FijiMonday, August 27, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood black comedy. A tiny, poor, but democratic country decides to help its young men get jobs by joining international peacekeeping forces in the Middle East.
The Road Not TakenFriday, August 24, 2012 by Johanna Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In my unusually large, far-flung, contentious, loopy contingent of maternal first cousins, the quandary of aliyah, or not, at one time or another, has possessed—pierced—nearly all of us. And this is so despite the great divergence in our ages, interests, temperaments . . .
Friday, August 24, 2012 by Zev Golan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nietzsche was not only a fierce critic of European anti-Semitism, but his quest to create the Übermensch was the inspiration behind the Zionist project to mold the New Jew. City, Empire, Church, Nation
Friday, August 24, 2012 by Pierre Manent | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By creating the nation-state, Europe resolved centuries of tension between Christianity and civic duty. Now Europe has deserted both, but the modern project continues apace. The 12th-Century Age of Aquarius
Friday, August 24, 2012 by Maud Kozodoy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Abraham ibn Ezra cast horoscopes not only for “natural” times such as the moment of birth, but also for “chosen” times: when a client began an enterprise or asked a question, or the onset of a disease.Alas for Aleppo
Friday, August 24, 2012 by Joseph Dana | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“In all the Holy Land and in Syria,” wrote Maimonides, “there is one city alone . . . in which there are those who are truly devoted to the Jewish religion and the study of Torah.”