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A New BattlegroundMonday, April 4, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An alarming number of American rabbinical students—whose influence will ultimately be felt nationally—are drifting toward active anti-Zionism.The Last Folio
Monday, April 4, 2011 by Stephanie Butnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a trip to interview Holocaust survivors, a photographer uncovered prayer books untouched since the deportation of Slovakia's Jews to concentration camps. (With slideshow)Beta Country
Monday, April 4, 2011 by Saul Singer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The co-author of Start-Up Nation delineates the qualities that underlie Israelis' phenomenal capacity for innovation. (Interview by David Horovitz) The Other Frank Sister
Monday, April 4, 2011 by Levi Brackman and Rivkah Lubitch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though no trace of it has ever been found, Anne Frank's elder sister is also believed to have kept a diary during the family's years in hiding.First Things First
Friday, April 1, 2011 by Todd Hasak-Lowy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli novelist has written a secular guide to biblical "firsts"; the work has a number of worthwhile stops along the way but fails to lead to any particular destination.Lead Tablet Silliness
Friday, April 1, 2011 by David Meadows | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The BBC has given its imprimatur to a wild story about a set of ancient books, written in Hebrew and Greek, cast in lead, and said to have been discovered in a remote valley in northern Jordan. Da Vinci Code, anyone?
Sifting the Cairo Genizah
Everyone knows about the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered over 60 years ago, and about the new light they shed on the sectarian Judaism of late antiquity, the beginnings of rabbinic Judaism, and possibly the prehistory of Christianity. Fifty years before that, the Cairo Genizah similarly revolutionized the picture of the Jewish Middle Ages.
Do-It-Yourself JihadFriday, April 1, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Everyone knows about the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered over 60 years ago, and about the new light they shed on the sectarian Judaism of late antiquity, the beginnings of rabbinic Judaism, and possibly the prehistory of Christianity. Fifty years before that, the Cairo Genizah similarly revolutionized the picture of the Jewish Middle Ages.
Friday, April 1, 2011 by Steven Stalinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The fifth issue of al-Qaeda's magazine features articles by Ayman al-Zawahiri and Anwar al-Awlaki along with its usual blend of how-to, inspiration, and twisted political analysis.Varieties of Jewish Experience
Friday, April 1, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Have Jews, like their Christian counterparts, had sects, movements, groups, and denominations?Star Treatment
Friday, April 1, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
France's former diversity adviser wants Muslims to wear a star as a sign of their mistreatment by French society, seemingly unaware that the symbol originated with Muslim degradation of Jews.