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The DNA SpeaksMonday, December 20, 2010 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Are Jews a "nation" or a "people"? The Hebrew term ‘am means both. Both terms, moreover, have been subjected to disapprobation in our time—although not nearly to the extent of "race," a term that Jews themselves stopped using nearly a century ago. How, then, are we to think about the mounting genetic evidence that points to Jewish biological continuity over time?
Monday, December 20, 2010 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Visiting scholars have become a regular feature of American congregational life; is the educational experience worth it, either to them or to the synagogue-goers?Abolish UNRWA
Monday, December 20, 2010 by Michael Bernstam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The UN agency ostensibly devoted to the welfare of Palestinian refugees is an incubator of revanchism and terrorism; dismantling it is the first step toward creating the conditions for a viable peace process.
Secularism and Its DiscontentsFriday, December 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The transformations of Jewish life in the last two-and-a-half centuries still boggle the mind. Deep ruptures opened to separate the present from the past, modernity from tradition, setting terms that have defined the contours of Jewish life until today. How did people try to think their way through the change?
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Armin Rosen and Jordan Hirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The newly launched Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University already shows signs of turning into a platform for an anti-Israel agenda.A Yeshiva Boy’s Christmas
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How one Jew learned to stop worrying and love the American Christmas season.Uprooting Beirut
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Habib Battah | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As Beirut's largest synagogue undergoes a massive government-funded facelift, the neighborhood's last Jew has been evicted from her home. (With photos)Kafka Is the Rage
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Paul Reitter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A slew of new books claiming to burst the myths surrounding Franz Kafka engage in quite a bit of myth-building themselves.Rent Rants
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How to respond to a rabbinic manifesto in Israel prohibiting the rent or sale of apartments to non-Jews.Under a Cruel Star
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Heda Margolius-Kovaly, resilient survivor of both Nazism and Communism, author of an extraordinary 20th-century memoir, has died at the age of ninety-one.
