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Losing to Islamism?Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Western civilization is not indestructible; it needs to be defended, and the first step is to understand how the other side is waging war—and to rid ourselves of illusions.Against Dwelling Apart
Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Steven Bayme | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, contemporary Jews have internalized a mindset of victimhood that falsifies their strengths and endangers their future.
Psalms for the PerplexedWednesday, August 18, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some mainstream Israeli musicians have recently been turning for material to religious texts; others have become immersed in the musical traditions of Sephardi Jewry. The two trends have come together in a new album, Mizmorei Nevukhim ("Psalms for the Perplexed"), by Kobi Oz.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 1949 armistice lines were not a recognized international boundary, and they only invited Arab aggression; renaming them the "1967 borders" will not change history or bring peace.We Do Not Need or Want This Mosque
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Abd al-Rahman al-Rashed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The planned mosque at Ground Zero is bound to become "an arena for the promoters of hatred and a monument to those who committed the crime" of 9/11—and most Muslims are against it.How Bad Was Jezebel?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Janet Howe Gaines | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every biblical word condemns her, but is there not something—much—to admire in this ancient queen?The Conversion of David Mamet
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Terry Teachout | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To explain the political evolution of America's most famous playwright from a Left-liberal to a conservative, one might begin with his earlier writings about Israel and Judaism.Of Dhimmitude and History
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two new and very different accounts of Muslim attitudes toward Jews are problematic, each in its own way, on the subject of anti-Semitism.
Retrieving A.M. KleinTuesday, August 17, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What qualifies a literary work as "Jewish"? Debates on this subject, once conducted with rigor, have become sillier over the years, descending to the recent call for inducting the African American writer Walter Mosley—whose mother was Jewish, and in whose detective novels the heroes are all black men—into the Jewish literary pantheon.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jerome Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How Akkadian, the cuneiform language of a third-millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian dynasty, sheds fascinating light on the Hebrew Bible.