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Too Many Museums?
Friday, March 25, 2011 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite the proliferation of Holocaust institutions, their impact has been qualified. Los Angeles's new entry into the field is a case in point.
Tainted Freedom
Friday, March 25, 2011 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An anti-Israel campaign has added further evidence that British campuses have become centers of anti-Western radicalism. This time, there was a push back.
The Taubes File
Friday, March 25, 2011 by Nitzan Lebovic | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two recently translated works contribute to an understanding of Western political theology while illuminating the mind of the sick, sad, brilliant scholar who wrote them.
Facebook and the Third Intifada
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Alana Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In light of the recent terrorist attacks on Israel, will the social-media website finally remove a page calling for mass violence against Jews?
The Pride of British Jewry
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Rebecca Schischa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Alongside and despite the new anti-Semitism, England today is witnessing a revival of Jewish culture, art, learning, and religious life.
Ancient Currency
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Michele Chabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new study calls for using private-sector models to transform Israel's woefully underfunded "heritage" sites into revenue producers.
Hasidic Rap
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Binyomin Ginzberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Lipa Schmeltzer, a hugely popular hasidic singer, frightens the rabbis and sells out Madison Square Garden. (With video)
Of Making Many Books There Is No End
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Writing created information, printing democratized it, and the Internet is drowning it. The Jewish book, if it is to survive, must adjust to the new reality.
The Liar as Hero
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ilan Pappé, best known for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), is a hero of the anti-Zionist cause—and a brazen distorter and falsifier of the historical record.  
Iron Man
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A fitting antidote to Israel Apartheid Week is Vladimir Jabotinsky's magnificent novel Samson (1928), which adheres to the biblical story while giving voice to the unconquerable spirit within Zionism.