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Newt and the Palestinians Newt and the Palestinians
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.
The Niche Yeshiva
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.
A Humanist Bible? A Humanist Bible?
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.
Getting Iran Wrong
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.
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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.
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