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The Demagoguery Days of SummerMonday, 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.Monsters into Songbirds
Friday, August 5, 2011 by James Warner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli author Etgar Keret's cryptic popular fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a morally ambiguous world.
John Lennon and the JewsFriday, August 5, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"It's not cool to be Jewish, or Negro, or Italian. It's just cool to be alive, to be around." So said Aretha Franklin. I know, because my father used to have the soul diva's wisdom hanging on the wall of his study at home. He also used to walk around in a t-shirt with "Miscegenate" emblazoned across the chest.
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.)
