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Whither Israeli Democracy?Monday, January 2, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though Israel is beset with serious social problems and partisan clashes over a host of issues, the idea that democracy there is in any danger is a figment of the imagination of the country's left-wing critics.
2011: A Year in BooksMonday, January 2, 2012 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holidays are over, the coffee-table books have all been unwrapped and set aside, and winter isn't going anywhere for a while. In short, it's time to settle in for some good reading. The literary critic D. G. Myers here presents the 38 best Jewish books of 2011, all of which merit your attention.
Monday, January 2, 2012 by Michael Walzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
He wasn't a particularly nice person, he wasn't a great novelist, he was a fine poet only sometimes, and he wasn't much of a historian—but, but, but . . .
Highlights of 2011:Part II
Friday, December 30, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Part II of our round-up of the past year's most popular features on Jewish Ideas Daily. (Part I is here.)
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Marc Tracy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A response to Commentary's feature article on Occupy Wall Street and the Jews.Channel 10 Facing Chapter 11
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Ethan Bronner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The troubles of the Israeli TV station are being cast as part of a broader cultural and political war for control over the judiciary, the reporting of news, and public discourse.The Philosopher’s War
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Benjamin Wallace-Wells | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How Bernard-Henri Lévy managed to goad Sarkozy—and the world—into vanquishing Qaddafi.On the Jesus Trail
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Julia Niemann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One journalist hikes the 65-kilometer path in the Galilee, passing from Nazareth through olive groves, the "Cana Wedding Guest House," and a kibbutz manufacturing synagogue furniture to Jesus' "home base" in Capernaum.Women Unite! For . . .
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Elana Sztokman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The driving force behind Israel's mass demonstration against Haredi violence against women was not women's rights, but religious coercion.Communal Table
Friday, December 30, 2011 by Stanley Ginsberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What exactly are "Jewish baked goods"? The ones that come first to mind—bagels, rugelach, challah—can all be traced back to the Gentile European societies in which the Jews found themselves living at various times.
