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Kissinger the JewFriday, May 24, 2013 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The outsider even as an insider, he endured the president’s anti-Semitic rants—and then endured the same contemptuous cries of ‘Jew-boy’ from harsh critics in Israel.”Hamas Rampant
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Costanza Spocci and Eleanora Vio | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new law forbidding coed schools marks the latest victory in the terrorist organization’s campaign to impose its writ on all of Gaza’s institutions.Hizballah Reeling?
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Phillip Smyth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Based on casualty reports from its own media, Hizballah is losing both young fighters and seasoned commanders in the Syrian civil war.Lone Survivor
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Marc Pitzke | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Refused entry into Palestine in 1942, set adrift by Turkey in the Black Sea, the Struma was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing all 800 of its Jewish passengers—except one.No Master Builder
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Michael Sorkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book resurrects the notion that Nazi architect Albert Speer’s work has artistic merit. It doesn’t.An Overdue Marriage Proposal
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reforms to Israel's religious bureaucracy, announced this week, will force rabbis to compete for clients.Iran and the Brotherhood
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran is becoming increasingly unpopular in the Arab world—except among Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.A Voice from Salonika
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Nina Caputo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 19th-century Ladino memoir, published last year, depicts Salonikan Jews tyrannized by a despotic rabbinic ruling class that benefited from exorbitant taxes and fees.“Hitler’s Reign of Terror”
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Emily Greenhouse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1934 documentary of Nazi oppression might have galvanized America against Hitler; but under pressure from Germany, the film was banned.Fallen Soldier
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Boruch Spiegel, who was one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, escaped the Nazis via the sewers, only to return to the city to fight with Polish partisans a year later.

