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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It was almost inevitable: Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has lobbed a grenade into the Republican nomination race, and the subject is Israel.
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Abigail Pickus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A secular yeshiva, an academic yeshiva, an environmental yeshiva? Israel is seeing the creation of several pilot programs geared toward ever-slimmer niche communities.After the Fall
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Amr Bargisi and Samuel Tadros | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the eyes of two Egyptian thinkers, the Tahrir revolution was never democratic or liberal—and it was never in the interests of the middle class.The Army’s Private Sector
Monday, December 12, 2011 by David Isenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As trust in the civilian side of the Israeli government declines, the IDF increasingly contracts out non-military services like food and medical care—at its own peril.

Monday, December 12, 2011 by Armin Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was delivered to Moses by God on Mount Sinai thousands of years ago. A.C. Grayling's The Good Book claims humbler origins. That text was given to us by an English philosophy professor this past summer.
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Alan Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why have intellectuals from Foucault to Žižek found it so very difficult to see dictatorships for what they are, or to summon up the moral clarity to oppose them?Israel’s Pulp Fiction
Monday, December 12, 2011 by Evan Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Countercultural publishing thrived in Israel's first decades, with Westerns, espionage thrillers, science fiction, and what might be seen as the country's first literary responses to the Holocaust.Falkenhayn’s Feat
Friday, December 9, 2011 by Lenny Ben-David | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Jews of Palestine owed their survival during World War I to a German army general, who prevented the Turks from doing to the Jews what they had already done to the Armenians.V
Friday, December 9, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Archeologists are stumped by mysterious stone carvings, made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem.Memorabilia Most Foul
Friday, December 9, 2011 by Alan Hall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the supply of Holocaust artifacts starts to dry up, commercial collectors are turning to an appalling source of Nazi items—the dead.