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Israel and Western GuiltFriday, May 20, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Confront Your Privilege." So reads a "subtly coercive" sign on display at tony American liberal-arts colleges. Why coercive? Because, as Wilfred McClay explains in an illuminating recent essay in First Things, what such signs are really telling the students is, "Feel Guilty."
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Steve Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Four in every ten self-identified American Jews call themselves "secular." But without the soil of religion, how can a commitment to Judaism grow or sustain itself?Up with Electronic Scholarship
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Seth Kadish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Should scholars of Judaica publish their work on the Internet instead of between covers? Only if they want people to read it.Charity Begins at Home
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a first for Israel, a community near Tel Aviv has adopted the American "federation" model in order to generate local funding for local causes.
What Would Ben-Gurion Do?Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How would David Ben-Gurion handle himself if he were the one scheduled to meet Barack Obama on May 20 and address a joint session of the U.S. Congress a few days later? That hypothetical question has been aired frequently by Israelis in the run-up to Benjamin Netanyahu's pending appointments in Washington.
Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does the "Arab world" still exist? Once a fairly solid bloc of despotic regimes, it is now split into several groups, each on a different trajectory.Abbas Speaks
Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Noah Pollak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Palestinian leader, now a partner of Hamas, has made it explicit: he wants a state not in order to pursue peace but in order to pursue war.Treasures from the Vault
Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Ilana Tahan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hundreds of digitized images from splendidly illuminated and decorated Hebrew manuscripts in London's British Library are due to go live at the end of June.A Voice Crying . . .
Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Shlomo Karni | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Observations on one of the best known and most misconstrued phrases in the Hebrew Bible.The Sound of Omer Avital
Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Charles Walker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli jazz artist's latest disc, Free Forever, captures his heady mixture of multiple sources and stirring melodies driven by an improvisational imperative. (With video)
