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Cold FrontThursday, July 21, 2011 by Manfred Gerstenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iceland has an ignoble history of anti-Semitism, and its current left-wing government is exacerbating matters.Neither Jew Nor Greek
Thursday, July 21, 2011 by Nadia Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A novelistic account of Brother Daniel, a notorious Jewish-born convert to Christianity, embraces the dissolution of distinctions—not only between Christians and Jews, but between murderers and victims.UNESCO’s Revisionism
Thursday, July 21, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Mired in anti-Jewish prejudice, the UN's cultural body classifies Rachel's tomb and Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs as mosques—and the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Maimonides as a Muslim.A Threat to World Peace?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jerusalem has invited construction bids on 336 housing units in two communities destined to remain part of Israel. The PA's response shows why peace negotiations are nowhere in sight.The Three-Week Challenge
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The mourning rituals of the period leading up to Tisha b'Av (this year on August 9) are largely foreign territory to non-Orthodox Jews; but doesn't everyone know the meaning of loss?Coming of Age
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The prolific Hebrew poet Leah Goldberg, born a century ago, was also the author of a piercing novel of adolescence and romance, now released in English.Struggling to Survive
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Howard Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Butte (Montana) to Paducah (Kentucky) to Sumter (North Carolina), Jewish life is on the wane while communities elsewhere in the same states thrive.My Australia
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Ayelet Dekel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Through the life of a young boy raised as a Polish Catholic, a new film explores the postwar generation in Europe and its relation to Jews and (sometimes hidden) Jewish identity.Will Israel Endure?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Roger Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new French book painstakingly demonstrates the Jewish claim to Israel on the basis of historical, linguistic, legal, and genetic evidence, even as it asks: why is this still an issue?The Voice
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 by Katie Schneider | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before becoming the voice of Bugs Bunny and 400 other characters, Mel Blanc was a Jewish boy doing impressions of his immigrant neighbors in Portland, Oregon.

