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Songs for the Jewish-American Jet SetTuesday, November 15, 2011 by David Pescovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 50's and 60's, the independent Tikva Records cranked out everything from Israeli folk and klezmer to cantorial singing, Catskills comedy, and political spoken word. (With audio)Will Israel Strike Iran?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Elliot Jager and Larry Derfner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Video debate on the likelihood of an attack, media reporting on the issue, and the international implications all around.

Monday, November 14, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What if a group of youthful Palestinian activists, fed up with Hamas and Fatah for leading the Palestinian Arabs over and over down bloody, self-defeating dead ends, were to emerge as a new political and social force—something like a Palestinian "Peace Now"?
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Gary Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It was staged to be a media sensation when "the thinker with the head of a poet" met "the poet with the head of a thinker." But on philosophical matters, the two titans stood poles apart.The Judeo-Christian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In this perilous economic climate, we should remember the lesson of the world's first economist, the biblical Joseph: Years of plenty tend to be followed by years of hardship.Dennis Ross’ Legacy
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Ron Kampeas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the peace process seems as moribund as when the U.S. Mideast envoy last left it in 2000, Iran's isolation might be counted as Ross' success. Tropical Storm
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Josh Lambert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Decades before his obscenity trials would prove him right, Henry Miller wrote in his ambivalently anti-Semitic Tropic of Cancer that "the first people to turn to when you're down and out are the Jews." (Includes obscene language.)In the Red Army
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Half a million Jews fought for the Soviet Union during its bloody encounter with Nazi Germany; many felt they had "an extra score to settle with Hitler" after finding out about the Holocaust.Check Mating
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Ori J. Lenkinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli organization offering a liberal alternative to Rabbinate-approved weddings has met its end.

Friday, November 11, 2011 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Haredi adventure stories are a curious but popular genre. There is the 2005 Yiddish-language film A gesheft ("A Deal"), the story of a Hasid-gone-bad out for revenge on the pious man he wrongly blames for his childhood misfortunes.