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An Eye for GeniusMonday, January 9, 2012 by Arthur Lubow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When Leo Stein first saw Matisse's Woman with a Hat, he thought it "the nastiest smear of paint" he had ever encountered. But for five weeks, he and his sister Gertrude went repeatedly to look at it. The Perils of Self-Deception
Monday, January 9, 2012 by Colin Rubenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To imagine that anti-Semitism would evaporate if Israel signed a peace deal with the Palestinians is sheer fantasy. So why do pundits and policymakers regularly make this claim? Incitement and Enlightenment
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Yitzhak Laor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even the fact that ultra-Orthodox women work in professions while the men are increasingly cooking and taking care of the children isn't enough. The Left demands a single set of standards for everyone: its own.Mengele’s Skull
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If the trial of Eichmann marks the beginning of the era of the witness, the exhumation of a body thought to be that of Mengele signals the inauguration of the era of forensics in international criminal justice. Pound Foolish
Friday, January 6, 2012 by John Stoehr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Pound hailed Hitler, and Gertrude Stein cheered Franco, William Carlos Williams eschewed doctrine and orthodoxy. Herbert Leibowitz's compelling new biography of the modernist poet shows why.
The Whole Damn DealFriday, January 6, 2012 by Suzanne Garment | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 2, 1979, President Jimmy Carter recorded in his diary that he had asked Robert S. Strauss to be his Mideast peace negotiator. Strauss answered, "I've never even read the Bible. And I'm a Jew." Observance-wise, Bob Strauss, who spent 50 years as a consummate practitioner of American politics, wasn't much of a Jew.
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Patrick Clawson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tactically, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustainable system. (PDF) Sha-bot
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.I Shall Be Released
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Ilan Grapel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"On June 12, two dozen state security officials barged into my hostel room, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and transported me to their general prosecutor." Reflections on a detention in Egypt.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Simon Wynberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.
