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Egyptians with AttitudeFriday, February 11, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new poll reveals, at the moment, low support for Muhammad el-Baradei, little sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, and more support for than opposition to the peace treaty with Israel.
Skeletons in the Closet of HasidismFriday, February 11, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Popular demands for transparency in our institutions and the availability of technological means to achieve it have made it hard to keep secrets. This has affected the conduct not only of government and business but also of religion.
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Josh Nathan-Kazis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shrinkage and shakeup in the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist denominations suggest that all of liberal Judaism is in a state of imminent crisis.Profiting from Loss?
Friday, February 11, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book challenges the widespread view among Poles that their nation behaved honorably under Nazi occupation.The Newspaperman
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The founding editor of the English-language Forward and the New York Sun speaks about his career, the U.S. Senate without Joseph Lieberman, and answers to fifty-year-old crossword puzzles. (Interview by Elliot Resnick.) Meet the Graanbooms
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The saga of a seventeenth-century family of Swedish converts to Judaism.
Of Calendars and ControversyThursday, February 10, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It's the month of Adar, and in Jewish tradition, the beginning of Adar always means an "increase in joy." After all, the festive holiday of Purim, on Adar 15, is just two weeks away—or would be in a normal year.
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Sohrab Ahmari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Middle Eastern literature remains mired in anti-Western and anti-Jewish hate.Go East, GOP Hopeful
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Alexander Burns | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Particularly for Republican candidates, a visit to Israel is becoming as critical to a political resume as an early trip to Iowa or New Hampshire.Man Stands Powerless Before Elevator
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by James L. Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an interview, the renowned Bible scholar speaks of the "starkness" of religion, what modern Arabs owe to their Mesopotamian forebears, and living in the face of a cancer diagnosis.
