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Ambassador to Islam?Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Paul Marshall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The United States is legitimizing the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Why?Why I Observe Two Days of Purim
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Ari Enkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Because he lives in Beit Shemesh, a town in Israel that in the days of Joshua had a wall around it.Prospects for American Judaism
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Lance J. Sussman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book celebrates the outlook for non-Orthodox religious life; reason and evidence would suggest otherwise.
Charisma and Its DiscontentsTuesday, February 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In depressingly familiar fashion, another charismatic rabbi is at the center of a scandal involving alleged sexual improprieties. The figure in question, Mordechai Elon, is the scion of a distinguished family who has filled major roles in Israeli public life, directed leading yeshivot and a wide-reaching publishing program, and is revered by tens of thousands of followers. As he continues to assert his innocence, even his accusers take pains to recall his valuable achievements. Meanwhile, Israel's religious Zionists, the people to whom he matters most, are in shock. Elon's swift fall from grace would have been impossible if not for the stature...
Monday, February 22, 2010 by David Schenker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Washington's year of "engaging" with Syria has yielded few if any positive results, and is unlikely to produce more.A “White Intifada”
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Shaul Mishal and Doron Mazza | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The shift toward a human-rights agenda in international diplomacy could lead to a new Palestinian strategy, and requires pre-emptive action by Israel.The Coca-Cola Rabbi
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Gail Lichtman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the yortsayt of a remarkable figure of Southern Orthodoxy.
Yehuda HaleviMonday, February 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How golden was the Jewish "Golden Age" of Spain: roughly, the 10th–11th centuries C.E.? In the era's once-popular reputation for Muslim-Christian-Jewish tolerance and coexistence (convivencia), it is increasingly easy to see an overused and overstated fiction; more and more, scholarship reveals just how conflicted a time it was, and how conditional was the "tolerance" extended to minority communities. Still, for Jews as for others it truly was a period of amazing cultural creativity and accomplishment, all the more astonishing in light of convivencia's constraints. Under Muslim rule, the most innovative Jewish achievements lay in the realms of poetry and philosophy. Standing at the summit of both,...
Monday, February 22, 2010 by James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not unless it can be stopped short of becoming a nuclear power, which means not without a credible threat of military action.Why No Jewish Narnia
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Michael Weingrad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is it a coincidence that Jews have contributed less to modern fantasy than to any other literary genre?
