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The Palestinian Mandela?Tuesday, August 9, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
To his Israeli backers, Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is the "Palestinian [Nelson] Mandela." That image—of a principled, graying freedom fighter with the courage to move his people toward reconciliation—is promoted by political and cultural figures on the Israeli Left.
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Amotz Asa-El | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
America's anti-market policy has already bred disaster. Is this what Israel's "tent protesters" have in mind for the Jewish state?
Mourning, Memory, and ArtMonday, August 8, 2011 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
David Roberts (1796–1864) was a Scottish painter who in the late 1830's traveled extensively in the Levant and Egypt documenting "Orientalist" sites in drawings and watercolors. Among Roberts's paintings was a massive 1849 work, The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, the only viable way forward—from demonstrating to organized political activity—remains perilously elusive.The Self-Centered Life
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why observe the Torah's commandments? Because, says an Orthodox rabbi channeling Oprah, they make you feel good about yourself.“Friendship Jew”
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the perils of cross-cultural exchange as experienced by a Jewish Peace Corps volunteer in Guiyang, China.The Jewish Berber Queen
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dahia al-Kahena, a powerful monarch and formidable warrior, may have tragically paved the way for the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 C.E.Imaginary State
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Steven J. Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A majority of the world's countries are gearing up to recognize a Palestinian state in September. But does Palestine really qualify?Inside the Slaughterhouse
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Uriel Heilman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bred for kashrut, raised by Mennonites on kosher-for-Passover grain, inspected by a man who writes Hebrew science fiction in his spare time: the life of one kosher chicken. (With photos.)Real Zionism
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is moving toward an equilibrium between socialism and capitalism—and thus closer to the social welfare society envisioned by Herzl.