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Iran Cannot be ContainedWednesday, June 16, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
American policymakers are looking for ways to accommodate a nuclear Iran. Their ideas are thorough, serious, and dangerously wrong.A Better Middle East Road Map?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can the international community interrupt its Israel-bashing to do something potentially constructive?Iran’s Revolution Now
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Reuel Marc Gerecht | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Very little is needed to help the Green movement's efforts to topple a now permanently unstable regime; but will Washington provide it?The Divestment Scorecard
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Jon Haber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israel offers a global cause to rally around even as it has little to show for itself on the ground.Politics, Turkish-style
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Semih Idiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Evading tough issues at home, Prime Minister Erdogan rides a populist and Islamist wave with vitriolic anti-American and anti-Israel overtones.
World Zionist Congress
The 36th congress of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) opens in Jerusalem today, bringing together hundreds of delegates drawn from political parties in Israel's Knesset as well as from Zionist and Jewish organizations in the Diaspora. On the agenda are subjects ranging from the condition of Zionism in Israeli society and worldwide, to settlement in Judea and Samaria, to Israel-Diaspora relations. Unfortunately, no matter how stimulating the speeches may be, no one anticipates any fateful decisions or even any serious grappling with existential questions.
Improving Henry RothTuesday, June 15, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 36th congress of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) opens in Jerusalem today, bringing together hundreds of delegates drawn from political parties in Israel's Knesset as well as from Zionist and Jewish organizations in the Diaspora. On the agenda are subjects ranging from the condition of Zionism in Israeli society and worldwide, to settlement in Judea and Samaria, to Israel-Diaspora relations. Unfortunately, no matter how stimulating the speeches may be, no one anticipates any fateful decisions or even any serious grappling with existential questions.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Judith Shulevitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Have editors and critics committed a posthumous literary injustice against the author of Call it Sleep and his unfinished, late-life stream of confessional narrative?Rebel with a Cello
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Ezra Glinter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Playing with classical orthodoxies, the work of the Israeli musician Maya Beiser is inspired by cross-cultural influences. (With video.)Adult Children of the Dream
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Lawrence Rifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Of the 270 kibbutzim in Israel, many are doing very well indeed. But what now defines a kibbutz?The Samaritans’ Temple?
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Chaim Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the peak of Mount Gerizim lie the well-preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old city.