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A Messianic MysticThursday, June 3, 2010 by Hartley Lachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newly translated essays by the scholar Isaiah Tishby introduces one of the most fascinating personalities and important thinkers of 18th-century Italian Jewry. (PDF)“Hook Noses, Mosaical Whiskers,” and British Theater
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Onstage caricatures of Jews in the 18th century would give way, in time, to 19th-century idealizations.
The Importance of Moshe GreenbergThursday, June 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On May 15, a giant of Jewish Bible scholarship passed away in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-one. American-born and -educated, Moshe Greenberg combined classical erudition in ancient Near Eastern languages and rabbinic and medieval exegesis with the critical perspectives of modern scholarship, analytical deftness, and literary style. He brought all these to bear on the ancient texts to elicit both knowledge and moral and spiritual guidance.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Seth Cropsey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The increasingly convergent paths of Turkey and Iran, two of the Middle East's largest, most powerful, and most influential states, is creating a geostrategic crisis of the first order.Sympathy for the Devil
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is it accepted wisdom that Israel and not Hamas—repressive, fascist, a murderer of Palestinians and Americans—has set back "peace"?What’s to Investigate?
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
That civilians were killed on the Mavi Marmara is no cause for pride, but under the circumstances nothing to be ashamed of.
Life from the LabWednesday, June 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Led by J. Craig Venter, genetic scientists have created a partially synthetic, self-replicating bacterial cell. According to an account in the May Science, the team built a synthetic genome from scratch and then put it into a living natural cell. Although the result does not qualify as a truly synthetic life form, Venter's achievement has been hailed as bringing us "a step closer to artificial life" and as a "defining moment" in the history of biology.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1947, the New York Times editorialized against Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade of Palestine; today it editorializes against Israel's "attack" on the blockade-running "aid flotilla."Remembering the Farhud Pogrom
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Karam Mnashe and Charles Recknagel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In June 1941, murderous Baghdad mobs assaulted the city's Jews in a precursor to the purging of an ancient community.In Hungary, the Return of the Repressed
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Paul Hockenos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jobbik, the anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist party that captured 17 percent of the Hungarian vote in April, emerged out of the country's young, educated "Facebook generation."
