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The Perils of Pauline KaelTuesday, December 13, 2011 by William Zinsser | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Remember how it was in the '60s and '70s, when movies were hot and we were hot?" Perhaps. One fellow film critic remembers that period—and the players in Kael's orbit—quite differently.
A Humanist Bible?
According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was delivered to Moses by God on Mount Sinai thousands of years ago. A.C. Grayling's The Good Book claims humbler origins. That text was given to us by an English philosophy professor this past summer.
Getting Iran WrongMonday, December 12, 2011 by Armin Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was delivered to Moses by God on Mount Sinai thousands of years ago. A.C. Grayling's The Good Book claims humbler origins. That text was given to us by an English philosophy professor this past summer.
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Alan Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why have intellectuals from Foucault to Žižek found it so very difficult to see dictatorships for what they are, or to summon up the moral clarity to oppose them?Israel’s Pulp Fiction
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Evan Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Countercultural publishing thrived in Israel's first decades, with Westerns, espionage thrillers, science fiction, and what might be seen as the country's first literary responses to the Holocaust.The Niche Yeshiva
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Abigail Pickus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A secular yeshiva, an academic yeshiva, an environmental yeshiva? Israel is seeing the creation of several pilot programs geared toward ever-slimmer niche communities.After the Fall
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Amr Bargisi and Samuel Tadros | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the eyes of two Egyptian thinkers, the Tahrir revolution was never democratic or liberal—and it was never in the interests of the middle class.The Army’s Private Sector
Monday, December 12, 2011 by David Isenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As trust in the civilian side of the Israeli government declines, the IDF increasingly contracts out non-military services like food and medical care—at its own peril.Trusting Its Own
Friday, December 9, 2011 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Adopting foreign interests influences the crucial debate over the Iranian nuclear threat. It's time for Israel to trust its own elected decision-makers.
Shtik and Sensibility
Theater can challenge preconceptions or play it safe. Relatively Speaking, a set of one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, rises to the challenge. The plays are variations on the theme of the Jewish mother, and two are predictable—but one is unusual.
In the Court of the TzadikFriday, December 9, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Theater can challenge preconceptions or play it safe. Relatively Speaking, a set of one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, rises to the challenge. The plays are variations on the theme of the Jewish mother, and two are predictable—but one is unusual.
Friday, December 9, 2011 by Geoffrey Clarfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Accompanying Shlomo Carlebach to a prayer service in a Sufi meeting house.