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Egypt’s Islamists: A Cautionary TaleMonday, March 28, 2011 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Muslim Brotherhood's caution should not be confused with moderation.
Jewish Studies in Decline?Monday, March 28, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Reports prepared recently for Israel's Council of Higher Education have brought despairing news about the condition of the humanities in the country's universities. Especially dispiriting is the report on Jewish studies, once the crowning glory of Israel's flagship Hebrew University—and, in the report's inadvertently nostalgic words, "an investment in the nurturing of the deep spiritual and cultural structures of Israeli public and private life." That investment has been producing ever smaller returns.
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An admiring new biography of Gandhi cannot help exposing the deformities of his character and his disastrous political judgment, not least in relation to Jews and Nazis.Hoop Dreams
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Jon Jaques | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When he seized the opportunity to play professionally in Israel, a Cornell basketball star got much more than he bargained for.Suitcases Stuffed with Poems
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Itay B. Zutra | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a visit to the Yiddish modernist poet Yirmiye Hescheles in honor of his hundredth birthday.Liz and the Holy Land
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Nathan Burstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Elizabeth Taylor's decades-long activism on behalf of Israel began when she purchased so many Israel Bonds that her films were boycotted by Arab nations.Peace Under the Helmet
Friday, March 25, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Competing for the championship, Israel's leading football teams field a mix of Jewish and Palestinian players, and run the gamut of religious flavors. The Triangle Fire Archive
Friday, March 25, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Documentation of and cultural response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers on March 25, 1911—one hundred years ago today.
The Brothers al-KuwaitiFriday, March 25, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Remember "Baghdad Bob," Saddam Hussein's information minister? During the Iraq war, as the cameras showed U.S. tanks rolling through Baghdad, he took to the airwaves to assure his fellow Iraqis that not a single enemy tank had penetrated the city's defenses. As it happens, "Bob," whose real name was Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, was a long-time expert in manufacturing absurd lies for domestic consumption.
Friday, March 25, 2011 by Daniel Henninger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There are three routes to Middle East stability: the fist, militant Islam, and economic modernity. The stability offered by the first two is fake.
