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A Geopolitical Island
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Gidi Grinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The international effort to isolate and delegitimize Israel poses as great a strategic threat as the effort to destroy it militarily, and requires no less effective a strategic response.
All in the Mind
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thought-controlled technology creates new challenges for Jewish law.
L’Affaire Ayalon
Monday, January 18, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Turkish anti-Semitism meets an inept Israeli diplomat; nobody wins.
Post-Orthodoxy?
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Growing "left" dissatisfactions within the Modern Orthodox world may portend the formation of a new movement.
First, Blame the Jews
Monday, January 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To a distinguished Christian theologian and scholar of the Bible, the root problem in the Middle East is simple: "Israel's conviction [of] being God's one chosen people."
Dictators’ Justice
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Robust international law is in Israel's interest, but not when its institutions are run by despots and hypocrites.
The Other Secret Jews
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new book explores the complex modern history of the Donmeh, a Turkish Jewish sect whose originators were the flame-keepers of Sabbatianism, the passionate messianic heresy of the 17th century.
Two Righteous Women
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Lynn Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Remembering Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family, and the dying American woman who in 1988 brought her to Manhasset, Long Island.
Unlikely Pairs
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Barbara Sofer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a new book, a veteran teacher offers readings of biblical narratives that she suggests must be read in light of each other.
Sailing to Byzantium
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Benny Ziffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Dodging the winter rains, a writer warms himself and his memories in the city of his youth.