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A City without a Memory
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Erich Follath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Budapest is experiencing a revival of anti-Semitic agitation, causing many of its Jews to leave.
The Core of the Conflict
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Ari Shavit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Seven reasons why Israel is right to insist on recognition as a Jewish state.
East of Sweden
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Donald Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Once, Jews sought refuge in Malmo; but Sweden has become "a microcosm of contemporary anti-Semitism," and many are fleeing to Israel.
Favorite Son
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Judith Matloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Asserting its national identity, Belarus embraces Chagall the artist, but not Chagall the Jew.
An Israeli Bubble?
Friday, October 15, 2010 by Amy Teibel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite perennial fears of war, Israel has emerged as one of the hottest property markets in the world, leading to fears of another kind.
The (Anti-)Semitic Question
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Ron Charles | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In his comic novel The Finkler Question, winner of this year's Man Booker prize, Howard Jacobson treats Jewish self-loathing and real live anti-Semitism with equal doses of wit and rage.
In Gaza, with Lattes and Rockets
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Peter Hitchens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recent trip reveals a bustling consumer culture juxtaposed with thuggery and harsh clerical rule, where many pine for the days before the Hamas takeover.
On the Bleeding Edge of the West
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A conversation in Jerusalem with David Hazony on war and peace, Israeli party politics, Kurdistan, Western democracy, the Ten Commandments, and Judaism's spirit of redemption.
Under Oath
Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What's behind the blind outrage that has greeted the proposed bill to require an oath of allegiance of naturalized citizens of Israel?
Pro-Israel Nation
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by William Kristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As yet another survey confirms, the American people strongly support the state of Israel, and want their elected representatives to do so as well.