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Of Dhimmitude and HistoryTuesday, 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.On the 3rd-Century Synagogue at Dura-Europos
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Meyer Schapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where the artists borrowed from others, and where they were original and distinctive: a 1968 talk by a pre-eminent art historian. (PDF; Schapiro comments begin on page 6.)Making the Middle East Less Important
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Michael Mandelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No available policy can make the region safe for the U.S. and the world; better to act so as to make the world safe from the region's pathologies.My Summer in Israel
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Ahmed Moustafa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?City of Refuge
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Masada Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to the former Jewish areas of Shanghai, where thousands of refugees from Nazism found shelter.No Census Consensus
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Carl Bialik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Census figures for American Muslims are inherently faulty; so, for different reasons, are the figures for American Jews.
Limited PartnershipMonday, August 16, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Celebrating its Independence Day on August 15, the nation of India marked 63 years since the end of British rule in the sub-continent. In light of the two countries' more or less contemporaneous struggle for self-determination in the immediate aftermath of World War II, one might have thought that India would establish close ties with the newly born state of Israel straightaway. It did not happen.
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Joel M. Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If you read the Bible only in English, you won't quite get the 23rd Psalm and you might misinterpret what you shouldn't do with your neighbor's wife.
