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New Ottoman Empire?Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Emanuele Ottolenghi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the uncertain wake of the Arab Spring, Turkey is trying to reassert itself as the leader of the surrounding Arab countries. How? By escalating tensions with Israel.Non serviam
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Tomer Zarchin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In granting the writer Yoram Kaniuk the right to be officially registered as "without religion" (rather than Jewish), Israel has taken a giant step toward the legal separation of religion and state.The Mind of Trilling
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Gertrude Himmelfarb | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It was Lionel Trilling's "moral imagination" that enabled him to venture into areas normally foreign to literary critics—including Jewish philosophy.
Career CorpsTuesday, October 4, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The United States has its military academies at West Point and Annapolis. The British put their officers through Sandhurst. But how will the Israeli Defense Forces, a citizen army, train its officers for the 21st century?
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Eric T. Justin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Traveling in the Middle East, an American student expected to encounter anti-Semitism. But he was unprepared to discover how retrograde and pervasive it was.The Audacity of Faith
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A biography of Yehuda Amital reveals a daringly exuberant figure whose journey led from a Nazi labor camp to a unique and controversial place in Israeli religious and political life.
Israel Studies 101Monday, October 3, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The modern American research university is a house of many rooms. The field of Israel Studies, which has emerged in the past decade, occupies one of the newest—and smallest—of those rooms.
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Janet Tassel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a brilliant 1989 essay, Jeane Kirkpatrick foresaw the long march through the UN that has led to the bid for Palestinian statehood.Reviving the Dead Sea Scrolls
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Jon Stokes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Google's digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls will enable easy public viewing and radically advance the tools, and the cause, of historical scholarship.Oil from the Rock
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Amiram Barkat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do Israel's shale deposits hold as much oil as there is in Saudi Arabia, and can it be gotten out?
