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The Newspaperman
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The founding editor of the English-language Forward and the New York Sun speaks about his career, the U.S. Senate without Joseph Lieberman, and answers to fifty-year-old crossword puzzles.  (Interview by Elliot Resnick.)  
Meet the Graanbooms
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The saga of a seventeenth-century family of Swedish converts to Judaism.
With Pen and Whitewash
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Sohrab Ahmari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Middle Eastern literature remains mired in anti-Western and anti-Jewish hate.
Go East, GOP Hopeful
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Alexander Burns | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Particularly for Republican candidates, a visit to Israel is becoming as critical to a political resume as an early trip to Iowa or New Hampshire.
Man Stands Powerless Before Elevator
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by James L. Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an interview, the renowned Bible scholar speaks of the "starkness" of religion, what modern Arabs owe to their Mesopotamian forebears, and living in the face of a cancer diagnosis.
Taste Test
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Katherine Martinelli | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ben-Gurion said that "the Negev is the place where the Jewish people will be tested." He may not have had a destination restaurant in mind, but now there is one.
Hidden Jews on the Mesa
Thursday, February 10, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the American Southwest, many Hispanics are learning of their Jewish DNA though genetic testing. (Video)
Of Calendars and Controversy Of Calendars and Controversy
Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

It's the month of Adar, and in Jewish tradition, the beginning of Adar always means an "increase in joy."  After all, the festive holiday of Purim, on Adar 15, is just two weeks away—or would be in a normal year.
The Pagan Rabbi
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 by Alan Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A rabbi explains how and why he believes in Zeus.
The Old New Jews The Old New Jews
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

It has been 40 years since the publication of a slim but memorable volume of essays by young American Jewish radicals and intellectuals. The New Jews, edited by James Sleeper and Alan Mintz, sought to give voice to a small cohort at once deeply alienated from organized Jewish life and deeply attached to Jewish history and culture.