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Jewish Studies, Once and FutureThursday, August 23, 2012 by Adina M. Yoffie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It’s that time of year again—not just the High Holidays but the time when Jewish college students pore over online course catalogues and make their choices for the fall semester. Will they take Jewish Studies courses? If so, does it matter which ones?
Thursday, August 23, 2012 by Salman Masalha | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the images of Syrian violence an Israeli Druse sees the brutality of modern Arab regimes: “Every one of them is based on tribal and religious tyranny.”Poland’s Casualties of War
Thursday, August 23, 2012 by Suzanne Rozdeba | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Nazi-occupied Poland, Wladyslaw Gugla risked death as a Jew and a teacher of Slavic children. Protected by villagers, he survived—only to die from habits formed in hiding.Turning Sun Into Rain
Thursday, August 23, 2012 by Anav Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Making fresh water through desalination is too expensive for many poor countries. But new Israeli technology can make the process cheaper—and better.Ignore Anti-Semitism: Bernstein’s Rules
Thursday, August 23, 2012 by David Bernstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Has a fringe group announced an anti-Israel demonstration on campus? Odds are that it’s Israeli and Jewish sources who will give them the publicity they want.Don’t Know Much ’bout Orthodoxy
Thursday, August 23, 2012 by Yair Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York media think an Orthodox woman running for political office is an anomaly among females who are cloistered, uneducated, and subservient. Wrong, wrong, wrong.