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Jews Formerly for ObamaThursday, August 26, 2010 by Ed Lasky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jewish voters are leaving the Democratic party, and some are, it's not, or not only, because of their concern for Israel.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A smoldering resentment, bordering on political paranoia, is palpable in sectors of Israel's Left these days. Everywhere, it seems, powerful enemies are conspiring to undermine the centers of cultural influence that leftists have long regarded as their own property, and as beyond criticism. Their response bears a resemblance to the left-wing American affliction that the columnist Charles Krauthammer memorably labeled "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was the destruction of Pompeii an act of divine retribution?Ki Tavo: The Mystery of Goodness
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
By David Hazony Nearing the end of his farewell address to the Israelites, Moses describes a peculiar ceremony they are to perform after entering Canaan.Beyond the Age of Ideology
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Steven M. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Engaged young American Jews are significantly more interested in culture, social justice, and Jewish learning than in external threats to Jews, Judaism, or Israel.The Old, the New, the New New
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Amnon Rubinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A prominent Israeli scholar, columnist, and politician talks about five books on his country, from politics and peoplehood to land and society.Class Menagerie
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A collection of Japanese figurines illuminates the history of the European Jewish dynasty who owned it.Back to Day School
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why Jewish schools are an increasingly comfortable choice for bicultural, biracial, and interfaith families.An Iranian Toqueville
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Samuel Thrope | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1964 essay by Jamal Al-e Ahmad, Velayat-e Esrael, idealized the state of Israel as an alternative society.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After eighty-six years, eighty-two in print and the last few in cyberspace, the New Leader, a quintessential American "little magazine," is folding. Like all good publications, it both embodied and analyzed a world of its own, a world worth remembering.