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The Whole Damn DealFriday, January 6, 2012 by Suzanne Garment | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 2, 1979, President Jimmy Carter recorded in his diary that he had asked Robert S. Strauss to be his Mideast peace negotiator. Strauss answered, "I've never even read the Bible. And I'm a Jew." Observance-wise, Bob Strauss, who spent 50 years as a consummate practitioner of American politics, wasn't much of a Jew.
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Patrick Clawson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tactically, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustainable system. (PDF) Sha-bot
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.Incitement and Enlightenment
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Yitzhak Laor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even the fact that ultra-Orthodox women work in professions while the men are increasingly cooking and taking care of the children isn't enough. The Left demands a single set of standards for everyone: its own.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Simon Wynberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.Native Son
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Ann Marlowe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After Gen. David Petraeus, the greatest single influence on American counterinsurgency practice in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Tunisian-born Jew who has been dead more than 40 years.Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest.
The State of ChristianityThursday, January 5, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On a sun-drenched day during the week before Christmas, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was crowded with pilgrims from Nigeria. They were taking turns kneeling and praying at a marker on the spot where, sacred history has it, Jesus was crucified, entombed, and resurrected.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Aner Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A microstate with no army and a defense pact with its closest neighbor, Israel; a welfare state to make Scandinavians jealous; education, with small classes and long days, state-funded through college.I Shall Be Released
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Ilan Grapel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"On June 12, two dozen state security officials barged into my hostel room, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and transported me to their general prosecutor." Reflections on a detention in Egypt.