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Mourning, Memory, and ArtMonday, August 8, 2011 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
David Roberts (1796–1864) was a Scottish painter who in the late 1830's traveled extensively in the Levant and Egypt documenting "Orientalist" sites in drawings and watercolors. Among Roberts's paintings was a massive 1849 work, The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, the only viable way forward—from demonstrating to organized political activity—remains perilously elusive.Imaginary State
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Steven J. Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A majority of the world's countries are gearing up to recognize a Palestinian state in September. But does Palestine really qualify?Inside the Slaughterhouse
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Uriel Heilman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bred for kashrut, raised by Mennonites on kosher-for-Passover grain, inspected by a man who writes Hebrew science fiction in his spare time: the life of one kosher chicken. (With photos.)Real Zionism
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is moving toward an equilibrium between socialism and capitalism—and thus closer to the social welfare society envisioned by Herzl.Double Standards
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Gerald M. Steinberg and Naftali A. Balanson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does the incompetence of Human Rights Watch in handling the repression and violence of the Syrian regime prove the organization's irrelevance once and for all? Monsters into Songbirds
Friday, August 5, 2011 by James Warner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli author Etgar Keret's cryptic popular fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a morally ambiguous world.
John Lennon and the JewsFriday, August 5, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"It's not cool to be Jewish, or Negro, or Italian. It's just cool to be alive, to be around." So said Aretha Franklin. I know, because my father used to have the soul diva's wisdom hanging on the wall of his study at home. He also used to walk around in a t-shirt with "Miscegenate" emblazoned across the chest.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Joshua Teitelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why has the prospective sale to Saudi Arabia of 200 of Germany's most advanced main battle tanks raised nary a peep from Israel? For good reason, as it happens.Why Jews Succeed
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Social scientists tend neither to understand nor to appreciate how modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions; they would do well to study the case of the Jews.