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Among the Lost BoysTuesday, August 30, 2011 by Brooke Allen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The playwright Wendy Wasserstein turns out to have been a more complex and nuanced character than any of her own creations, and a darker one, too.Not Too Busy to Hate
Monday, August 29, 2011 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is naive to think that Egyptians—or the Arab world writ large—will accept the presence of a Jewish state in their midst any time soon, if ever.
The Jewish Samuel MenasheMonday, August 29, 2011 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The poet Samuel Menashe, who died on August 22 at the age of eighty-five, grew up in Queens, New York. His poems have always been appreciated by other poets; but, until late in his life, his poetry did not receive the attention it deserved.
Monday, August 29, 2011 by William Kristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yes, says the editor of the Weekly Standard, half tongue-in-cheek; no, and Jews shouldn't vote for him, says a blogger for the Washington Post.Singing “Their” Tunes
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the halakhic permissibility of, among other things, non-Jewish rituals and music in Jewish worship.Céline the Inescapable
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A permanent and, by some, celebrated presence on the French literary landscape, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) incarnates for many others the epitome of rabid anti-Semitic bigotry.These Sacred Dead
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Adam Chandler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tucked away in hidden corners of Manhattan are some of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the United States.Initials SG
Friday, August 26, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the heart of the new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the Jewish identity of the pop provocateur.
Demonizing Glenn BeckFriday, August 26, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few American public figures equal Glenn Beck in his ability to inspire loathing from his enemies and affection from his admirers. Beck was in Israel this past week for a series of public events—in effect, revival meetings. He called the tour "Restoring Courage."
Friday, August 26, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contradictions, or at least inconsistencies, marked Joseph B. Soloveitchik's involvement in virtually every major issue that confronted modern Orthodoxy.
