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The Resistance in Lebanon
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With Hizballah's power grab, the mantle of resistance moves to the March 14 movement that won Lebanon's elections. But will they resist, and will the U.S. back them?
Al-Jazeera’s Show Trial
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The "Palestine Papers" seem designed to deprive the West Bank leadership of what is left of its credibility; they may succeed.
Learning from Reynolds Price
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by Beth Kissileff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why can't American Jewish writers give as much serious and deep thought to their religion as the late novelist, a self-declared "outlaw Christian," gave to his?
Rhapsody in Blue
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Jonathan Wilson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Chagall's newly restored America Windows, completed in 1977, have a thoroughly American story; they also reprise the work he did in 1920 for the Moscow Yiddish Theatre.
The Maghreb Difference
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In northwest Africa, according to a Hebrew University professor, Arab-Jewish relations during World War II were significantly better than in the Middle East.
On the Brink
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Lebanon, the West stumbles along the precipice of a slow-motion defeat, whose tremors will be felt in the Israel-Arab dispute and across the region.
“Blessed is the Match”
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Elissa Strauss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Through her personal artifacts, diary, and poetry, a New York exhibit tells the story of the Zionist heroine Hannah Senesh, caught in Hungary and executed by the Nazis at the age of twenty-three.
Behind the Man
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Elad Benari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Sonia Peres, Israel's late first lady, wasn't politically involved, or so goes the usual story; the real story is much more interesting.
Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
Monday, January 24, 2011 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If the debate over foreign funding of Israeli NGOs clarifies anything, it is that human-rights groups proliferate in societies that need them the least.
On the Hill
Monday, January 24, 2011 by David G. Dalin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Through biographical sketches of the Jews serving in the Senate or Congress over the past 170 years, a new book provides more than its share of little-known and surprising facts.