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Jews and CapitalismFriday, June 3, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Why are so many Jews discomfited by capitalism—and not merely by the caricature of capitalism as rapacious speculation and exploitative profiteering but by the very idea of organizing an economy along free-market lines?
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Ray Fisman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are anti-Semitic attitudes transmitted across not only generations but centuries? According to a comparative study of two German communities, the answer may be yes.Banning Circumcision
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Yitzchok Adlerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Efforts to criminalize circumcision are an attack not on Jews but on religion, opposition to which is growing more militant even in religion-friendly America.Mind Your Own Business
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 1887 complaint in the London Jewish Chronicle about the "theatricality" of American Reform ordinations draws a rebuke and a put-down by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.
We Were the FutureThursday, June 2, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few uniquely Israeli institutions have ever held the world's imagination like the kibbutz: a radical Jewish experiment in communal living, social justice, economic egalitarianism, and the reorganization of family life. Indeed, perhaps the most radical innovation of all was the "children's house" (beit y'ladim).
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fouad Ajami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish statehood was furthered by the UN vote in 1947, but the Zionist project had already prevailed; the Palestinian national movement is a different story altogether.Young Rabbis and Israel
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
That some rabbinical students (and their elders) are turning against the Jewish state is a deeply distressing fact; the question is why.Needed: A Real Freedom Flotilla
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the anti-Israel season heats up, another people in the eastern Mediterranean—the Syrians—are in desperate need of "freedom activists." Or is freedom not what the flotillas are about?Earthly Jerusalem
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Far beneath the bustling streets of old Jerusalem lies an ancient—a very ancient—Jewish city.
The Jewish Way in WarWednesday, June 1, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How can democracies, acting under the conventions of international law, defeat Islamist terrorists operating by their own benighted rules? How, especially when UN member-states are prepared to enable terrorists by perverting the rules of war and human rights?