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Iran and the UN: Showdown at Last?Friday, March 5, 2010 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The IAEA may finally be getting real about Tehran's nuclear-weapons program.Supply-Side Judaism
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Elie Kaunfer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among young American Jews, the demand for knowledge and identification is there. Missing are the initiatives and the leaders to meet it.Killing Their Own
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Shay Fogelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the first intifada, more Palestinians were murdered by Palestinian authorities than by Israel; the tally for the second intifada stands at 593, and those not executed were horribly tortured. Human-rights groups seem uninterested.In Old Cordoba
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Daniel Savery | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A walking tour through the town where Maimonides was born.A Game of Chance?
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Neria Guttel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A learned and fascinating book delves into the significance of lotteries—and of coincidence and randomness—in Judaism.Unorthodox Methods
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Liana B. Baker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A modern-Orthodox rabbi in San Francisco reverses a congregation's decline; Twitter figures in the strategy, as do Super Bowl parties.“I owe a great debt to Jews”
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Jessica Elgot | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Michael Foot, a leader of the old British Labor party, has died at 96.The Desert Rat
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Jake Wallis Simons | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1944, Denis Avey broke into Auschwitz and swapped identities with a Jewish inmate. Now, at 91, he reveals why. Listen.Milking Dubai
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arab and European media revel in excoriating Israel for deeds the same media excuse or ignore when practiced by other governments.
Hannah Arendt
Nearly 35 years after her death, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) continues to spark discussion and reflection. For Israeli readers in particular, the recent appearance in Hebrew translation of her magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism, as well as of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's massive biography (1982, rev. 2004), brings home her continuing ability to frustrate and provoke. A consummate German-Jewish intellectual, Arendt received a thorough philosophical training, studying (and more than studying) with Martin Heidegger and writing a dissertation on Augustine's theory of love. The rise of Nazism drove her from metaphysics to politics; she became active, first in Germany and later after fleeing to...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Nearly 35 years after her death, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) continues to spark discussion and reflection. For Israeli readers in particular, the recent appearance in Hebrew translation of her magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism, as well as of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's massive biography (1982, rev. 2004), brings home her continuing ability to frustrate and provoke. A consummate German-Jewish intellectual, Arendt received a thorough philosophical training, studying (and more than studying) with Martin Heidegger and writing a dissertation on Augustine's theory of love. The rise of Nazism drove her from metaphysics to politics; she became active, first in Germany and later after fleeing to...