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EpicuriousFriday, March 2, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Of all the philosophers of classical antiquity, why was it Epicurus whose name became a rabbinic byword for a religious skeptic or heretic?Secular Saint?
Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tony Judt is revered by atheist hagiographers and graces the secular pantheon, but his legacy is a share in the moral decay of Europe which will leave no civilization to remember him.Chained Melody
Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Uri Zer Aviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In its heyday, the Mizrahi Orchestra numbered 36 musicians, who uniquely preserved Jewish music from the Babylonian Diaspora. But amid financial woes, its future looks bleak.
Jews, Damned Jews, and SociologistsThursday, March 1, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What is this thing called Jewishness? What does it look like? What are its boundaries? Even the most neutral-sounding answer reflects some position on one side or the other of the crazy-quilt of conflicts that have defined and continue to define Jewish life over the last 200 years.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government purports to "strengthen democratic governance around the world," yet it is hosting a conference aimed at destroying the only democracy in the Middle East.Brag, Brag, Brag
Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Greg B. Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"I've been a thief all my life," said Julius Bernstein, a/k/a Spike, the Jewish mobster who spent decades extorting money from businesses, unions, and even medical clinics—and never spent a day in jail.Courting Change
Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Mati Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Dorit Beinisch brought the judiciary into the thick of public debate. Her successor, Asher Grunis, will favor a new era of judicial restraint.The Ever-Growing Palestinian Problem
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In contrast to all other refugee populations, which diminish in number as people settle down or die, the Palestine refugee population has grown over time.
Gertrude Stein, Fascist?Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Does it say something that the most indelible portraits of Gertrude Stein come from the outside? Or, to frame the question a different way: what does it say when our most lasting impressions of a writer are based not on her words, but on the visions and appropriations of others?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Ron Naiweld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the prohibition on consuming blood, emphasized repeatedly in the Torah and law codes, become almost marginal in the collective Jewish consciousness?
