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Talking about the Intifada
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 by Barbara Sofer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How much should young, enthusiastic visitors to Israel, who are there to learn and to have fun, be told about the horrors of the second intifada and their lasting imprint on the Israeli spirit?
Another Japanese Schindler?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Newly discovered photos in the diary of a World War II Japanese tourism official are thought to be of Jews he helped to escape from Nazi Europe.
No Friends but the Mountains
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Kurds and Jews share a similar history—and a common enemy.
New European Order
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Matthew Kaminski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder places the Holocaust in the context of the wider European war, in the process giving a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.
Border Crossings
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Charles Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Canada imports most of its rabbis from the U.S., but they have to adjust to the more traditionalist Judaism practiced north of the border.
Will It Play in Boro Park?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Daniel Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What not to do when courting the Orthodox Jewish vote.
A Bad Bill
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Dan Izenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To the distinguished legal authority Ruth Gavison, there is nothing wrong with requiring an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, but the form and context of proposed legislation to that effect leave much to be desired.
A Writer’s Duty
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Ken Kalfus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new collection in English of fiction and journalism by Vasily Grossman, whose great masterpiece Life and Fate was suppressed by Moscow, excavates vital artifacts of Soviet Jewish experience.
J Street’s Problem
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Standing in the lobby's way are not its questionable donors, or the pro-Israel convictions of American Jews, but the long-settled values and sentiments of the American people.
Cleaning Strauss’s House
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Susanne Klingenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Was Maimonides a Jew? According to the unpublished private correspondence of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, no.