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The Historian, the Diplomat, and the Spy
Monday, January 9, 2012 by Clifford D. May | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Bernard Lewis, Uri Lubrani, and Meir Dagan see that disenchanted Iranians may offer the last, best hope for the Muslim world—and for winding down the global war against the West.
Shnorrers
Monday, January 9, 2012 by Simon Yisrael Feuerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

One dollar buys you a torrent of blessings from the elderly Russians who sit in the synagogue literally with their hands out: A gut yahr, na zdrovie, they say. Spraznikom.  And those are just the regulars.     
The Whole Damn Deal The Whole Damn Deal
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Suzanne Garment | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On April 2, 1979, President Jimmy Carter recorded in his diary that he had asked Robert S. Strauss to be his Mideast peace negotiator. Strauss answered, "I've never even read the Bible. And I'm a Jew." Observance-wise, Bob Strauss, who spent 50 years as a consummate practitioner of American politics, wasn't much of a Jew.  
Deflecting a Nuclear Iran
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Patrick Clawson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tacti­cally, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustain­able system. (PDF)    
Sha-bot
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.
Incitement and Enlightenment
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Yitzhak Laor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even the fact that ultra-Orthodox women work in professions while the men are increasingly cooking and taking care of the children isn't enough. The Left demands a single set of standards for everyone: its own.
Mengele’s Skull
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If the trial of Eichmann marks the beginning of the era of the witness, the exhumation of a body thought to be that of Mengele signals the inauguration of the era of forensics in international criminal justice.     
Pound Foolish
Friday, January 6, 2012 by John Stoehr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While Pound hailed Hitler, and Gertrude Stein cheered Franco, William Carlos Williams eschewed doctrine and orthodoxy. Herbert Leibowitz's compelling new biography of the modernist poet shows why.
Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest.
The State of Christianity The State of Christianity
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On a sun-drenched day during the week before Christmas, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was crowded with pilgrims from Nigeria. They were taking turns kneeling and praying at a marker on the spot where, sacred history has it, Jesus was crucified, entombed, and resurrected.
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