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How Do British Jews Vote?Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The community has resisted attempts to study its voting patterns, but doing so might prove electorally fruitful.Pioneer of Hebrew Dance
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Roni Dori | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The centenarian Yardena Cohen reflects on a lifetime of faith and art.A Dead-End Policy
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Aaron David Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A veteran adviser has lost his faith in the rigid dogmas of the American-led "peace process."Herman Wouk Remembers
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At ninety-four, the best-selling author has published a compact philosophical autobiography that, among other things, attempts to reconcile religion and science.Let the Palestinians Declare Statehood
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With no prospect of an agreement in sight, the unilateral formation of a state would help to normalize the dispute.From the Four Winds
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Robert Leiter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Through the eyes of two different immigrant families in 1950s Israel, the novelist Haim Sabato has written a profoundly moving meditation on Judaism and Jewish history.God’s Country
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Aryeh Newman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Living in the land of Israel, in the judgment of the great medieval commentator Nahmanides, is "equal in importance to all the commandments." An essay from 1968.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Zionist Jews were not interlopers in Palestine. The creation of the Jewish state was not an "original sin" foisted upon the Arab world. The tragic flight of the Palestinian refugees was overwhelmingly not the fault of the Zionists. To the contrary, at every momentous junction the Zionists opted for compromise and peace, the Arabs for intransigence and belligerency. This, in summary, is how most people once understood the Arab-Israel conflict. Today, however, as Israel marks its Independence Day, an entire generation has come to maturity believing a diametrically opposite "narrative": namely, that the troubles persist because of West Bank settlements, because...
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Tulin Daloglu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By re-defining Israel as an enemy, the Turkish prime minister has set back the cause of peace and stability.Lebanon’s Fate
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book offers a dispassionate but intimate account of the human condition under severe sectarian stress—and a modest vision of a way forward.