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Enigmas of Modern Jewish IdentityTuesday, April 9, 2013 by Stephen J. Whitfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Over the course of a lifetime facing modernity's conflicting demands, how might Jewishness affect the struggle to sustain identity, and how might this struggle mark the contours of Diaspora history?
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Charles C. Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A philo-Semite ever since her family rescued a Jewish girl from Vienna in 1938, Margaret Thatcher gave unprecedented prominence to Jewish politicians in her government.Israel’s High Holidays
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Donniel Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once scorned as a representation of the Old Jew's weakness, Yom Hashoah is now as much a Zionist commemoration as Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzma'ut. But is that right?Draft Priorities
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Aharon Lichtenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"I think there’s a legitimate basis for having a certain number of people, who contribute in a meaningful way to the discourse of the beit midrash, who are exempt from army service."Teaching Like Strauss
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Lee Trepanier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Countering the scientization of the academy, Leo Strauss defended philosophy as the route to understanding "the dignity of the mind," and thereby "the true ground of the dignity of man."Strangers in the Land
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Aaron A. Burke and Martin Peilstöcker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For over 300 years, Egyptians and Canaanites fought for control of Jaffa. But their violent interactions went hand-in-hand with cultural exchange.
