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Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
Monday, January 24, 2011 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If the debate over foreign funding of Israeli NGOs clarifies anything, it is that human-rights groups proliferate in societies that need them the least.
Change You Can Believe In
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Shmarya Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Instead of wasting money on empty, hip initiatives like Reboot, why not start an online accredited Jewish university and an American Jewish peace corps?
Danger Zone
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Franck Salameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Copts, Maronites, Assyrians, Jews, and other ancient non-Muslim minorities have been besieged and endangered by Islamic supremacism for fourteen centuries.
The Conscience of a Jewish Conservative The Conscience of a Jewish Conservative
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

A Jewish thinker is normally someone devoted to the study and interpretation of Jewish texts, Jewish history, Jewish issues, Jewish ideas. The late Irving Kristol (1920–2009) was, for the most part, something else: a consummate American intellectual.
Benjamin Franklin: Shaper of Jewish Thought
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Shai Afsai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How the Founding Father's method of self-examination and character improvement found its way into 19th-century Lithuanian yeshivas.
The Wounds of Time
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Ron Dermer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu responds to a magazine article on Israel's "rightward lurch."
In Defense of the Knesset
Friday, January 21, 2011 by S.H. Rolef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With all its shortcomings, Israel's parliament is a well-functioning institution, with sufficient checks and balances to offset some of its members' worst proposals.
A Zionist Who’s Who A Zionist Who’s Who
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The state of Israel, like the Zionist movement in all its forms—political, cultural, artistic, religious—was an astounding collective creation. The famous names are known, as are the slightly less famous.  But what about all the others?
The Zionist Card
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Meir Zamir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Intelligence documents reveal how Great Britain secured the collaboration of Arab leaders in Mandatory Palestine, thus also attempting to secure British influence in the Arab world.
Aux Armes
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Montreal, lately beset by violence, a growing underclass of Muslim immigrants has brought with it a contempt for European cosmopolitanism and heavy doses of anti-Semitism.
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