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Irving Howe and I
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An association with the most ideologically rigid of the New York intellectuals was cemented by a mutual devotion to Yiddish literature and buffeted by disagreements over issues of Jewish moment.
Women’s Surprising Defenders
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Caroline B. Glick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why do ultra-Orthodox Jews dominate an Israeli rescue enterprise that by rights ought to be the cause of secular feminists?
Let’s Talk About It
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Akiva Novick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A pioneering course of instruction helps rabbis to advise religious couples on problems in the bedroom.
The Palate of Algiers
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Dennis Wasko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The large and ancient Algerian Jewish community is all but gone; its cuisine remains.
An Open Letter to the Arab Street An Open Letter to the Arab Street
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

First and foremost, congratulations. Even from our vantage point on the other side of a seemingly unbridgeable divide between our peoples, the extraordinary nature of what you have accomplished in recent weeks is obvious.
Vayikra: No “I” in Moses
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

"God summoned Moses and He spoke with him from the Tent of Meeting, saying..." (Leviticus 1:1). The first Hebrew word of this week's portion, itself the first portion in the third book of the Torah, is VAYIKRa: "summoned." That's not a typographical error; the letter aleph at the end of the word is intentionally written in miniature in a Torah scroll (and usually in print as well). This is sufficiently unusual to raise the question: why?
Meet the Robot Snake
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Inventions in the robotics lab of Ben-Gurion University will help ready the IDF and other militaries for this century's evolving high-tech battlefields. (Video)
Bellow and I
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Remembering a friendship based on personal affection and a shared love of literature and language, and tested by decades-long disagreements.
What’s the Agenda?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An 11,000-word essay by New Yorker editor David Remnick proves once again how irrelevant to most Israelis, and to most Americans, is the view that Israel is the culprit in the Middle East.
Chagall in Paris
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Philip Kennicott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A Philadelphia exhibit shows the encounter of the desperately poor and isolated Russian Jewish artist with a world whose love he craved and, with mixed results for his art, won.
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