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Will Israel Win the Energy Prize?Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Jerry Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's leaders must grimly balance threats against its existence from a nuclear Iran with protection of its valuable oil and gas properties from predator Arab states and Turkey.Counter-Myths
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An abstract affection for Jews did not invariably translate into a predilection for them in practice. Milton's poetry did much to foster English Hebraism; but the poet himself could not abide the living Jews.The Arab Spring and the Islamic State
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Ed Husain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the recent uprisings, the burning of American or Israeli flags was not a central display; the protesters focused on internal, national problems. That's how they must continue.EastEnders
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Stephen Burstin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
London's East End was once a hub of immigrant Jewish life, with a soup kitchen that served 5,000 meals a day, a Yiddish theater, countless synagogues, Petticoat Lane Market, and . . . Jacob the Ripper?The Riddle of the Mufti
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Norman Goda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Haj Amin al-Husseini threw a long shadow as a precursor to the Arab and Muslim factions whose brand of anti-Semitism borrows much from the Western traditions that they otherwise despise.The Real Story
Monday, December 5, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the hysterical response to an ad campaign targeted at expat Israelis, the insecurity of American Jews is laid bare.Not One, Not Two . . .
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The absence of current demographic data for U.S. Jewry is something of a scandal, as Jews may indefinitely lack the information required for communal planning.

Monday, December 5, 2011 by Raphael Magarik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The yetzer hara, usually translated "evil impulse," is an elusive rabbinic concept. The words derive from God's observation in Genesis 8:21 (paralleled earlier in 6:5) that "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Dan Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like thousands of other young Jews from Michigan, Blair Nosan left the beleaguered state. But then, unexpectedly part of a young Jewish renaissance in the Motor City, she came back.Who Killed Rafiq Tagi?
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Azeris wanted a modern, relatively secular state, prosperous and with equality for women. But the walls are closing in on them as Iranian and Islamist forces take hold.