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A Palestinian MunichFriday, May 13, 2011 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The first strong gesture made by the reconciled parties of Hamas and Fatah was to condemn the killing of bin Laden. That, and the deafening silence greeting their pronouncement, says it all.Strings Attached
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Money alone has not sufficed to buy a treasured Judaica library containing, among other unique specimens, hundreds of handwritten Hebrew documents dating back as much as 1,000 years.The Alawites and Israel
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by John Myhill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Would the fall of Assad's regime decrease or, on the contrary, increase the likelihood that Syria will precipitate a war against Israel? (PDF)More than Schnitzel
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Katherine Martinelli | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Americans aren't the only ones who love a good barbecue. A profile of the distinctly Israeli tradition of mangal.
Agitprop in AmericaThursday, May 12, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The tempest has subsided, and the playwright Tony Kushner will receive his honorary doctorate from the City University of New York after all. After a single trustee convinced the majority of his fellow board members to deny the award on the basis of Kushner's viciously negative pronouncements about Israel, the weight of almost the entire New York cultural apparatus was brought to bear.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by John Eibner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Church burnings in Cairo are a sharp reminder that non-Muslim communities are an endangered species throughout much of the Islamic world.Shuffling the Deck Chairs
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Kuwait is now replacing Syria as a candidate for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council: essentially, a distinction without a difference.
Beyond “Religious” and “Secular”Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What should be the place of the Jewish religion in a Jewish state? There are many putative answers to this question, and the answers have changed over time. When Zionism was still an aspiration, a great blank yet to be filled in, the terms of debate were set by a self-confidently secular dispensation preoccupied with state- and institution-building. In the first few decades of statehood, religion, though state-established, was clearly subservient.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A masterful reporter, the independent journalist Michael J. Totten delivers assessments of the Hizballah movement that perennially escape the mainstream media.B’har: Liberty and the Jubilee
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This week's reading, though little more than a single chapter, deals with two separate topics: first, the sabbatical year; second, the obligations of family members to a relative in economic distress. What links them is a focus, unusual for the Torah, on macroeconomics.