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Twilight of the Arabs?Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Implications, for the West and for Israel, of the new contest for leadership in the Muslim world.Uneasy Communion
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Robin Cembalest | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exhibit in New York focuses on the surprising intersection of Jewish and Christian art in medieval Spain.Teaching Israel
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Rachel Hallote | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American professor of Israel Studies imparts perspective through, among other things, a large map.
Judaica by DesignWednesday, February 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Art for art's sake"—the idea that works of art must be judged solely on their own terms, apart from any considerations of moral, religious, or civic value—has by now become largely devoid of meaning, especially as so many artists openly hitch their work to one or another of today's political wagons. But with the lapsing of the polarities to which the phrase once gave rise, in particular those between art and religion, it has also become possible for newer generations of artists to turn their talents unapologetically to religious motifs. The results, as several recent exhibits suggest, are both intriguing and markedly uneven. Reinventing Ritual, a show from last fall at the...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New public-opinion polls, reliable but highly limited in scope, yield a number of surprising results.Who Are the Neturei Karta?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Jonathan Mark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group once linked with the Satmar Hasidism is now increasingly on its own in combining ultra-Orthodoxy with anti-Zionist zealotry.Why Yiddish?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "minor" culture has staged a rally, though an unstable one, at some American universities.Al-Durra: The Affair that Never Ends
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Benjamin Joffe-Walt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Italian documentary joins several recent others on an alleged Israeli shooting that has entered into mythology.Breakthrough?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Stephen Tignor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a political victory of sorts, an Israeli player has been allowed to participate in a Dubai tennis tournament; off-site, her movements are restricted to a sealed-off floor in a hotel.What Conservative Judaism Needs
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Arnold Eisen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an interview, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary outlines his vision.
