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Monsters into SongbirdsFriday, August 5, 2011 by James Warner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli author Etgar Keret's cryptic popular fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a morally ambiguous world.
John Lennon and the JewsFriday, August 5, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"It's not cool to be Jewish, or Negro, or Italian. It's just cool to be alive, to be around." So said Aretha Franklin. I know, because my father used to have the soul diva's wisdom hanging on the wall of his study at home. He also used to walk around in a t-shirt with "Miscegenate" emblazoned across the chest.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Joshua Teitelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why has the prospective sale to Saudi Arabia of 200 of Germany's most advanced main battle tanks raised nary a peep from Israel? For good reason, as it happens.Why Jews Succeed
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Social scientists tend neither to understand nor to appreciate how modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions; they would do well to study the case of the Jews.The Cottage-Cheese Rebellion
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli protest movement over the cost of food is spreading to other goods and services; whether it will help bring truly competitive markets and a more accountable political class remains to be seen.Lucky Little Shul
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A synagogue built in 1913, tucked into a narrow lot on New York's Lower East Side, still stands and is still in use—protected, perhaps, by the constellation of zodiac signs on its walls?
Hizballah in AmericaThursday, August 4, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hizballah is a Shiite Muslim movement, Iranian-created and -funded, which strongarms Lebanon through threats and violence, assaults Israel with rockets obtained through Syria in contravention of UN resolutions, and is funded through massive criminal enterprises. And it has arrived in the Americas.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's middle-class protest movement may have been inspired by the "Arab Spring," but the two have nothing in common-and besides, Israelis can always change their government.
Reconstructing JudaismWednesday, August 3, 2011 by Joseph J. Siev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At a time when all three major Jewish denominations in America—Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—find themselves in a state of deep internal fracture, a fourth and much smaller movement, Reconstructionism, has just voted to create a unified body to coordinate the activities of its lay and rabbinical arms.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 by Seth Chalmer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite what some modern Jews think, particularism is not the enemy of universalism; quite the contrary.
