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Jews and GunsFriday, August 17, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Two mass shootings in the past month—in Aurora, Colorado and Oak Creek, Wisconsin—have focused American attention once again on the issue of guns. Are guns a Jewish issue?
Friday, August 17, 2012 by David Rothkopf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After the collapse of the Congress of Vienna settlement, Europe endured two world wars before establishing a new order. Israel is gearing up for a similar scenario in the Middle East.Directionless Diaspora
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Isi Leibler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As many European and American Jewish institutions become increasingly irrelevant, decrepit, and oligarchic, Diaspora Jewry is facing a serious crisis of leadership.Start-Up Ummah?
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Schumpeter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book argues that amid political instability and the threat of war, the Arab world has seen a rise in entrepreneurship, supported by a large and expanding market.Water of Life
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Yonatan Neril | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Far from the abundant water supplies of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile, Israel’s reliance on rainfall is designed to remind us that all our needs depend on divine providence.The Forgotten Firebrand
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Sue Vice | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Appalled at the secularism of inter-war Anglo-Jewry, poet Izak Goller bemoaned “the gods of the shops and the warehouses / Hollow papier-mâché imitations of the Golden Calf of our ancestors!”
