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Why South Koreans Love Judaism
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Tim Alper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Most may not know what is involved in being a Jew, but Stories from the Talmud is a Korean bestseller and the government has included it in the primary-school curriculum.
The King’s Nasty Speech
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Ruth King | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Colin Firth, who played the anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist George VI to perfection, is now set to play Avraham Stern, one of the king's fiercest opponents in Jewish Palestine.
Germany Takes Sides
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Across the political spectrum, Germans are making Israel the whipping boy for all the problems of the Middle East.
Her Secret Life
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

María López, who chose baptism over expulsion from Spain in 1492, was later convicted of Judaizing and burned at the stake. Was she a crypto-Jew, or wasn't she?
Defining Nakba
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The "sacred destination" of the Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas has declared, is the "return" of millions of 1948 refugees and their descendants to what is today Israel.
Human Rights and Wrongs
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Noah Pollak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The world's most destructive anti-Israel organization isn't run by Arabs or Europeans. It's run by Israelis.
Joking for Life
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At one-hundred, the teacher and comic novelist Bel Kaufman may be the last person alive who remembers the peculiar humor of her grandfather, Sholem Aleichem.
What “Disaffected Jews”?
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Ted Lapkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Claims of a weakened attachment to Israel are grossly overstated, if not patently false.
Is Greed Good?
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An investigation into classical Jewish commentaries on the accumulation of wealth, its benefits and its perils.
A Palestinian Munich
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The first strong gesture made by the reconciled parties of Hamas and Fatah was to condemn the killing of bin Laden. That, and the deafening silence greeting their pronouncement, says it all.