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A Priceless Manuscript Goes OnlineWednesday, January 13, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Containing comments on the Zohar, the classic work of Jewish mysticism, this is one of only four authentic documents by the hand of the Gaon of Vilna (1720–1797).Fear and Trembling: A Week in England
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a visiting American Israeli blogger, English Jews display shocking signs of a fearfulness both physical and psychological.American Aid to Israel: The Numbers
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over the past two decades, by every reasonable measure, U.S. aid has plummeted.
Was Dostoevsky a Scoundrel?The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), rightly known as a peerless master of psychological fiction, a fierce anti-socialist polemicist, an anti-romantic with a pulsingly romantic commitment to prophetic religion, and a dramatist of moral ideas without compare since the English poet John Milton, also happened to harbor an ugly fixation on the Jews.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An international best-seller makes one decent point, all but drowned in an ocean of puerile shoddiness, distortion, and falsehood.Supermario
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Avner Avrahami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Romanian-born Israeli astrophysicist and Renaissance man, who now spends twelve hours a day working on the Hubble telescope, dilates on God, the golden ratio, the Israeli education system, the romance of mathematics, and much more.The Tel Aviv Cluster
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by David Brooks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's technological success marks the fruition of the Zionist dream; could it also contribute to its undoing?Evgeny Kissin Takes On the BBC
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an open letter, the world-famous pianist charges a news service that once served as "a beacon of light, of truth and objectivity to those of us behind the Iron Curtain" with "aligning itself with Iran's despotic leader" against Israel and with "anti-Semitic propaganda."Swamped with Singles
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Yael Brygel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Young, religious, and unmarried: a celebrated, groundbreaking television series explores life in a vibrant and frustrated Jerusalem neighborhood.Never Lost, Case Closed
Monday, January 11, 2010 by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An isolated crypto-Jewish community in northern Portugal has somehow retained its genetic identity for centuries.
