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The Fight WithinThursday, February 4, 2010 by Stewart Ain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Charges that a left-wing Jewish fund was behind much of the "war crimes" information in the Goldstone Report have sparked a nasty internal debate.A Comer?
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Aluf Benn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can a well-known journalist ride the Israeli public's disgust with politicians to a successful political career?Philosophical Evil
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Mark Blitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Martin Heidegger was an active Nazi; whether his thought can be altogether tied to his Nazism remains an open question.
TabletsWednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A few days ago, Apple released yet another new device aimed at integrating words written, spoken, and seen, and freeing them from the limitations of time and space. It joins an array of other products making texts and audio-video materials available as never before. Is anything being lost here? The Talmud declares: "Written words should not be spoken, and spoken words should not be written." What the rabbis specifically sought to impress on Jewish minds was the difference between the Written Torah, fixed, immutable, divine, and the constantly accreting commentaries known as the Oral Torah, spontaneous, dynamic, human yet also somehow partaking of...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Brian Whitaker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Describing his new book, a British journalist outlines the deep-rooted obstacles to change in Arab society and why he thinks that, in time, they may yet be overcome.The Shiddukh Crisis
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Corinne Ramey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Having delayed marriage, many young Orthodox Jews now find themselves adrift, or wedding and divorcing in haste.Drops to Drink
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by David Newman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's multi-year drought has broken, but a successful water policy touches on everything from supply to issues of economics, politics, and geopolitics.Against Tolerance
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Appealing to Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, a young scholar reassesses the leveling effects of a modern concept that denies religion's claims to election and truth.The Deerlift
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Charles Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some 500 fallow deer in today's Israel descend from four secretly airlifted out of Tehran on the eve of the 1978 Khomeinist takeover.
Goldstone, Again and BeyondTuesday, February 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The UN's Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead has taken on a life of its own. Late last week, Israel submitted its own official version of its military operations in Gaza, to which UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon is expected to respond today. Within Israel, calls for an independent commission of inquiry have found a prominent ally in the state's outgoing attorney general. Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz, alongside his substantive criticisms of the Goldstone Report, has denounced its author as a Jewish traitor. Intentionally or not, the Report has become a powerful element in the mounting international campaign—warfare conducted as "lawfare"—to delegitimize Israel's very existence as...
