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The Blue & the Gray
Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Civil War was a key episode in the evolving relationship between the Jews and America; why are today's Jews positively uninterested in exploring it?
On Post-Ethnic Judaism
Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A social phenomenon celebrated by some observers spells disaster for the future of American Jewry.
No Balancing Act
Thursday, March 3, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For young athletes with a strong Jewish identity, tradition will always trump sports, even if it means losing a competition.
The Vatican vs. the “Zionist Tsunami”
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Slander of Israel is growing among important Catholic journalists and in the precincts of the Vatican Secretariat of State; the Pope should reverse the wave.
The Unremembered
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Shelomo Alfassa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Bulgaria boasts of being the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population. The reality is far more compromising.
From the Rock
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Jim Lauria | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Masters at creating usable water, Israelis are also among the world's most ardent conservationists.
Dirty Jokes and Wedding Jesters
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In July 1661, abusive and aggressive jokers, a fixture of Eastern European Jewish life, were exempted from a rabbinic ban on merrymaking—and modern Jewish humor was born.
A Fierce Legacy
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Rather than being imported into the Middle East as a byproduct of modern European imperialism, violence and oppression was long an integral part of Islamic political culture.
Hamas: Wait and See
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Mark A. Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hamas's ambivalence toward the uprising in Egypt indicates a lack of confidence in its ability to forestall or contain similar developments in Gaza.
No Way Back
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by William Shawcross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An epic new work recounts the story of the millions, including survivors of the Holocaust, displaced by the horrors of the German war machine, and of the men and women who labored heroically to succor them.