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Egypt’s ChoiceThursday, March 10, 2011 by David Makovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to peace with Israel, Egypt's leaders will have to navigate between populist antagonism to the Jewish state and the Egyptian national interest.Norman Podhoretz and I
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While grateful for my friendships with Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, I was looking for a champion—both of America and of the Jews. Eventually I found him. (Part three of a three-part series.)Lost and Found
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Sam Dolnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than a thousand works of Jewish scholarship missing from a German collection have turned up at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
Identity = ?Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In discussions of that elusive entity known as "Jewishness," few terms have become so ubiquitous, and as a consequence so elusive, as "Jewish identity." The phrase regularly serves as the name of a communal dream: the wished-for end product that vast apparatuses of education, institution-building, and programming aim to instill and perpetuate. But what is it?
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by José Ramos-Horta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At this point in time, writes the president of East Timor, the West Bank is an oasis of economic progress and tranquility in a region of turmoil.Talmud for Beginners
Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A now-completed translation of the Talmud into modern Hebrew (and, partially, into English) has made a notoriously difficult text accessible to the Jewish layman.The Palate of Algiers
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Dennis Wasko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The large and ancient Algerian Jewish community is all but gone; its cuisine remains.
An Open Letter to the Arab StreetWednesday, March 9, 2011 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
First and foremost, congratulations. Even from our vantage point on the other side of a seemingly unbridgeable divide between our peoples, the extraordinary nature of what you have accomplished in recent weeks is obvious.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
"God summoned Moses and He spoke with him from the Tent of Meeting, saying..." (Leviticus 1:1). The first Hebrew word of this week's portion, itself the first portion in the third book of the Torah, is VAYIKRa: "summoned." That's not a typographical error; the letter aleph at the end of the word is intentionally written in miniature in a Torah scroll (and usually in print as well). This is sufficiently unusual to raise the question: why?Meet the Robot Snake
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Inventions in the robotics lab of Ben-Gurion University will help ready the IDF and other militaries for this century's evolving high-tech battlefields. (Video)