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Will Israel Win the Energy Prize?
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Jerry Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's leaders must grimly balance threats against its existence from a nuclear Iran with protection of its valuable oil and gas properties from predator Arab states and Turkey.
The Evil Inclination The Evil Inclination
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Raphael Magarik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The yetzer hara, usually translated "evil impulse," is an elusive rabbinic concept. The words derive from God's observation in Genesis 8:21 (paralleled earlier in 6:5) that "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."
The Arab Spring and the Islamic State
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Ed Husain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the recent uprisings, the burning of American or Israeli flags was not a central display; the protesters focused on internal, national problems. That's how they must continue.
EastEnders
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Stephen Burstin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

London's East End was once a hub of immigrant Jewish life, with a soup kitchen that served 5,000 meals a day, a Yiddish theater, countless synagogues, Petticoat Lane Market, and . . . Jacob the Ripper?
The Riddle of the Mufti
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Norman Goda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Haj Amin al-Husseini threw a long shadow as a precursor to the Arab and Muslim factions whose brand of anti-Semitism borrows much from the Western traditions that they otherwise despise.
The Real Story
Monday, December 5, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the hysterical response to an ad campaign targeted at expat Israelis, the insecurity of American Jews is laid bare.
Not One, Not Two . . .
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The absence of current demographic data for U.S. Jewry is something of a scandal, as Jews may indefinitely lack the information required for communal planning.
Detroit Rising
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Dan Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Like thousands of other young Jews from Michigan, Blair Nosan left the beleaguered state. But then, unexpectedly part of a young Jewish renaissance in the Motor City, she came back.
Who Killed Rafiq Tagi?
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Azeris wanted a modern, relatively secular state, prosperous and with equality for women. But the walls are closing in on them as Iranian and Islamist forces take hold.
Inhuman, All Too Inhuman
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

That Hezbollah was infiltrated by the CIA shows that the terror group was not as disciplined or as impermeable as thought.
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