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Frail Reeds? Frail Reeds?
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Observing Egypt's current upheaval, a writer for the Hebrew daily Makor Rishon has ventured the thought that whatever happens there, and no matter who takes power, "the lesson for Israel is clear: Arab regimes cannot be trusted."
Iran Losing?
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why Tehran is unlikely to emerge from the current turmoil as the key power broker in the Middle East.
Seeds of Subversion
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Far from having proved a success, Jewish secularism has shown itself poorly equipped to withstand the erosions of liberal democratic societies.
Either/Or
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Was the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard a theological anti-Semite, as a controversial new book claims?
Wooing Jews
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Several dozen American synagogues now offer loans, grants, and incentives to attract young families to their communities. Is this poaching, or just good marketing?
Capturing Goering
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"The Nazi leader settled into the back seat [of the plane] and tried to fasten his seat belt. It wouldn't stretch across his belly. . . ."   
Who Needs Jewish Yoga?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Torah Yoga, Kosher Yoga, Kabbalah Yoga: in the eyes of one Hindu spokesman, yoga is a universal heritage and is not at odds with any faith, even Judaism.
A Vanished World
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Judith Shulevitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Panorama, a Holocaust novel written in 1948 but unpublished until 1968 and only now being made available in English, should have marked the brilliant debut of a major German writer.    
The Pragmatic Fantasy
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Caroline B. Glick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The overwhelming animosity of the "Arab Street" toward Israel has caused political realists to argue—wrongly—that the country's best play is to cut deals with Arab dictators.
Cyrus, Ahmadinejad, and the Politics of Purim Cyrus, Ahmadinejad, and the Politics of Purim
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Anyone who deplores the politicization of the past should have been apoplectic in September 2010 at the sight of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad receiving the loan of the "Cyrus Cylinder" from officials of the British Museum.