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Demonizing Glenn BeckFriday, August 26, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few American public figures equal Glenn Beck in his ability to inspire loathing from his enemies and affection from his admirers. Beck was in Israel this past week for a series of public events—in effect, revival meetings. He called the tour "Restoring Courage."
Friday, August 26, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the heart of the new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the Jewish identity of the pop provocateur. The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood
Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To understand the Brotherhood's prospects in Egypt's upcoming elections, one has to understand the intensely disciplined organization itself.Golda Meir Was Right
Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Burak Bekdil | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"You know well how to kill," declared Turkey's prime minister to Shimon Peres. But which Middle Easterners really know well how to kill—starting with their own?Paradise Lost
Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Cate McQuaid | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a gorgeous, bright, and haunting series of paintings, a child survivor of the Holocaust retells the story of the expulsion from Eden.The Standing Devotion
Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1706, Isaac Abendana published Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews; it includes a précis, reproduced here, of the 18 sections of the Amidah, the central daily prayer.
Hidden MasterThursday, August 25, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The saddest saga in Jewish literary history involves some 500 Soviet Yiddish artists who were stolen away by Stalin's henchmen in the late 1940's. They met a tragic fate after twenty years under a relentlessly repressive regime whose creation they had greeted with utopian fervor.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Michal Kravel-Tovi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 200-year-old visual tradition emerges from iconic images of Lubavitch rebbes, public menorahs, replicas of the movement's headquarters in Brooklyn, and other objects of piety.Nice and Not Nice
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
English lacks anything that corresponds exactly to the Yiddish sheyn, which tends to convey the classical Jewish attitude that true beauty is as much moral as physical. But "nice" comes close.
Who Speaks for Israeli Arabs?Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Historians writing about Israel's 1948 fight for independence generally place heavy responsibility for the Palestinian Arab refugee problem on the Arab leaders who urged their people to flee Palestine temporarily until the Zionists were driven into the sea.
