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Bibi’s BrainThursday, September 22, 2011 by Allison Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Netanyahu's senior adviser, an American Jew, has done more to shape Israel's relationships in recent years than any man aside from the prime minister himself.
Mel and the MaccabeeThursday, September 22, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Australian-American actor and director Mel Gibson—he of the anti-Semitic outbursts, the abused girlfriend, The Passion of the Christ—has just closed a deal to make a film for Warner Bros. with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas about the life of Judah Maccabee.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Moses ben Maimon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Oxford's Bodleian Library has made its famous manuscript copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law available online in its entirety.Jewish in Turkey
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A community depleted by decades of out-migration insists that it feels completely at home; in private, speaking not for attribution, many voice fear—or defiance.Toward a Jewish Humanism
Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Shai Held | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The moral philosophy embraced by a religious-Zionist leader in the mid-20th century is in urgent need of revival.Nitzavim-Vayeilekh: The Song of Torah
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
"Now, write for yourselves this song [shirah]; teach it to the Children of Israel and place it in their mouths . . . " (31:19) These are the directions Moses gave to the priests and elders, in whose care he entrusted the song, with instructions to read it to the entire community of Israel on the occasion of their gathering in the Temple on the festival of Sukkot.Expert Deception
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Nehemia Shtrasler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's social protesters are appealing to the authority of a "team of experts"—really just utopian fantasists making elementary economic errors.Trap and Trade
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sharon's uprooting of Gush Katif was supposed to be a step toward peace. Instead it planted the idea that areas can be ethnically cleansed of Jews.
The Wages of DurbanWednesday, September 21, 2011 by Arch Puddington | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the days just prior to the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) was very much in the news, and for reasons that are altogether relevant to the mass murder that took place on September 11, 2001.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just as the partition vote in 1948 did not "create" a Jewish state, so too the present vote will not create a Palestinian one.