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Missing IngredientMonday, August 22, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jewish theology is whatever Jews happen to be thinking about religion, then it is idiosyncratic and meaningless; so how should it be defined?
Get Ready for Durban IIIOn September 22, one month from today, world bodies will gather at the UN General Assembly in New York on the 10th anniversary of the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa.
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
So long as Hamas can attack Israel any time it wants, it can effectively veto any chance of peace with Palestinian moderates—should any turn up.In Tiktin, Without Jews
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to European attitudes toward the Jewish people, what, in the end, has changed since the Holocaust? Clearly, not enough.
Islamism and Western ArtFriday, August 19, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Osama bin Laden will forever be remembered spending his last days like a common shlub: sitting on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, remote control in hand, watching TV. Unlike most other shlubs, however, bin Laden just happened to be contemplating his own image on the boob tube.
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Syria to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt, sectarian conflict, reignited by the "Arab Spring," is becoming the norm. Will Israel be drawn in?Settlement Syndrome
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest complaint from Washington about new residential building in a West Bank town is evidence of a lingering fixation that impedes the possibility of compromise between Israelis and Palestinians.Samson without Delilah
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Saul Bellow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A novel by the Yiddish writer Zalman Shneour provokes reflections on varieties of Jewish strength and Jewish pride, and on the strangled roots of postwar Yiddish culture. (1945)Unorthodox Orthodox Matchmaker
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Cindy E. Rodriguez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi has devised a way to help homosexual men fulfill their dream of becoming husbands and fathers while remaining in good standing with Jewish religious law.The Keidan Way
Friday, August 19, 2011 by Andrew Cassel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Descendants of a storied Lithuanian community, wiped out by the Nazis and their local helpers in August 1941, keep the flame of memory alive at annual reunions, this year in Tel Aviv and New York.
