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No Ford in Israel’s Future?Thursday, June 16, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With little fanfare, the Ford Foundation has initiated a phased withdrawal from its long, largely behind-the-scenes campaign to influence Israeli politics.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the late-18th century, a bibliophile Lithuanian rabbi collected a wide-ranging science library that served, among others, the free-thinking Solomon Maimon and the Gaon of Vilna.Sleeping to the Beat
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Ben Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the age of sixty, a Moroccan-born musical prodigy, master of piyyut, and virtuoso of the oud is releasing his first album.Politics Abhors a Vacuum
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Absent from President Obama's latest proposals for Israel-Palestinian negotiations was any mechanism for implementing them. Predictably, others have jumped in.Prosecuting “Palestine”
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Jeremy Rabkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Prompted by the Palestinian Authority, the International Criminal Court may join other UN forums in attempting to undermine Israel's legitimacy—thereby putting much more than Israel at risk.
Jesus for JewsWednesday, June 15, 2011 by Eve Levavi Feinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
That Jesus lived and died a Jew would hardly be regarded as news by most educated Jews and Christians today. Still, while the historical Jesus is ever-elusive, the figure of Jesus, for Jews, has become more accessible.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Jonah Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For a while, even the State Department was taken in by the blogging lesbian Muslim with her impeccably anti-Israel and anti-American credentials. Too bad she did not and could not exist.Can Terrorism Be Solved?
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Gabriel Schoenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a new book, the history of Israeli counterterrorism is a case study in tactical excellence consistently undermined by strategic failure. Really?Italy Against the Jews
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From boycotts of Israeli products to boycotts of stores owned by Jews to demonizations of Jews in the liberal press, anti-Semitism has once again become fashionable in Italy.From Babel to Babylon
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Gwendolyn Leick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A beautifully produced book highlights, through the spectacular collections of three European museums, the life and culture of an ancient city.
