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High GroundMonday, January 24, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the new, third edition of his now-classic work, Rabbi Norman Lamm argues passionately for the importance of broad knowledge in a dedicated Jewish life.The Wounds of Time
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Ron Dermer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu responds to a magazine article on Israel's "rightward lurch."In Defense of the Knesset
Friday, January 21, 2011 by S.H. Rolef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With all its shortcomings, Israel's parliament is a well-functioning institution, with sufficient checks and balances to offset some of its members' worst proposals.Change You Can Believe In
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Shmarya Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Instead of wasting money on empty, hip initiatives like Reboot, why not start an online accredited Jewish university and an American Jewish peace corps?Danger Zone
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Franck Salameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Copts, Maronites, Assyrians, Jews, and other ancient non-Muslim minorities have been besieged and endangered by Islamic supremacism for fourteen centuries.
The Conscience of a Jewish ConservativeFriday, January 21, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Jewish thinker is normally someone devoted to the study and interpretation of Jewish texts, Jewish history, Jewish issues, Jewish ideas. The late Irving Kristol (1920–2009) was, for the most part, something else: a consummate American intellectual.
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Shai Afsai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the Founding Father's method of self-examination and character improvement found its way into 19th-century Lithuanian yeshivas.No Man’s Land
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Charles Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why are men less involved than ever in the Conservative movement? And what can be done about it?A Monarch Dethroned
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Joshua Muravchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A finely wrought biography of Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi explores the ironies that led to the replacement of a moderate reformer by a brutal dictatorship.
A Zionist Who’s WhoThursday, January 20, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The state of Israel, like the Zionist movement in all its forms—political, cultural, artistic, religious—was an astounding collective creation. The famous names are known, as are the slightly less famous. But what about all the others?
