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Veiled ThreatsTuesday, August 3, 2010 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
European bans on the burqa are an outrage against freedom—and, for the sake of freedom, they must be supported.Of Rabbis and Robots
Monday, August 2, 2010 by David Gelernter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One of these years, there will be true, human-like robots; will we then be faced with a "machine rights" movement—and how then should we respond?
Out of the Well of the PastMonday, August 2, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jewish history was once regularly portrayed as a march from pre-modern stasis to modern revolution and change. This picture held its attractions, offering clearly marked battle lines for later proponents on either side of the ongoing ideological struggles between traditionalists and modernizers. By now, however, we have been well instructed in the deceptive simplicity of all such efforts to impress order on the relentless flux of history, which so often dissolves the closer we look at it.
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Mudar Zahran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In relentlessly focusing their hostility on the Jewish state, the media turn a blind eye to the decades-long oppression and persecution of Palestinians at the hands of their fellow Arabs.Burying History
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By allowing the Muslim Waqf to carry out unsupervised excavations on the Temple Mount, Israeli authorities have enabled the destruction of Jewish archeological treasures.More is More
Monday, August 2, 2010 by James Walton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In The Finkler Question, the British novelist Howard Jacobson lets rip with exhilaratingly over-the-top portraits of, among other types, a group calling itself "Ashamed Jews."Memories of Kerala
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Barbara C. Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The millennia-old heritage of the Jews of India has been partially preserved by the 4,000-strong Cochin community now living in Israel.All the Treasures of Spain
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Maia Efrem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York's first annual Sephardic book fair was a quiet success. (With video.)Playing with Fire
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The author rebuts detractors of his earlier article about the ubiquity of anti-Semitic comments on mainstream websites and offers a "Jew Baiter's Lexicon" of terms frequently used to discredit supporters of Israel.Punctuality Improvement Program
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Karl Taro Greenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Amid a ruined marriage, a dissolute writer learns the art of fatherhood. (A story.)
