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Our Man in CairoMonday, February 21, 2011 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the blunders that caused Israel to be unprepared for the Yom Kippur war, none may have been greater than its failure to credit the warnings offered by its mystery man inside Egypt.When in Doubt, Slam Israel
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will the Obama administration vote for a UN resolution condemning Israel that it doesn't want to vote for?Blind Pity
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Brendan O'Neill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the very moment when the Palestinian issue has become less important to the Arabs, it has become of the utmost symbolic importance to the Western Left.A Down to Earth Philosophy
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is there a coherent ideology of Jewish secularism? Perhaps, but it's not the one that the scholar David Biale sees in the work of figures from Maimonides to Tony Kushner.The Jewish Wars
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Rivkah Fishman-Duker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his 1996 book, now reissued in a second edition, Edward Alexander exposes and confronts the double standard regarding Israel and Judaism with uncommon incisiveness.
Thankless in Turtle BayFriday, February 18, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After more than six months of internal squabbling, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beitenu) have, at last, agreed to dispatch the seasoned diplomat Ron Prosor as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. But what, realistically, can any Israeli ambassador hope to achieve at the UN?
Friday, February 18, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why a much-praised novel by Nicole Krauss wasn't on my list of best Jewish books of 2010.Qaddafi’s Captive
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Yoav Fromer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli artist sent to photograph Libya's once-thriving Jewish community ended up arrested, tortured, and spending five harrowing months in jail.Kosher Game
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Aaron Kagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Your grandmother may not have used gazelle in her stuffed cabbage, but several species of game are kosher and increasingly available from adventuresome farmers.
The Riddle of the SatmarThursday, February 17, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prospect terrifying to secular Israelis and Zionists worldwide has been the rapid growth of the Jewish state's ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Given the stranglehold of haredi political parties on recent coalition governments, and the encroachments by non-Zionist haredi clerics upon Israel's chief rabbinate, once religiously moderate and firmly Zionist, the fear is not entirely irrational.
