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Access
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Yad Vashem has been given access to Poland's World War II-era archives, including files produced by Nazi authorities that will aid in identifying Holocaust victims.
A Good Nation is Hard to Find
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 by Sam Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new critique of chosenness ignores all the ways in which two nations that claim exceptionalism
Rededication
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The reopening of the
Defiance
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by ToldotYisrael | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Six men who flouted a 1930 British law and blew the shofar at the Western Wall tell their story. (Video)
Person of the Year
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Amotz Asa-El | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Humbly born, the biologist Ada Yonat, Nobel laureate, is a living reminder of all the things that put to shame the international effort to deface the Jewish state.
Putting Paid to Gaza
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Emanuele Ottolenghi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Avigdor Lieberman's call for Israel to disengage fully from Gaza has thrown Arab and European parties into a panic. A sign that the idea deserves serious consideration?
A Synagogue Reborn
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Mainz, Germany, a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht in November 1938 has been rebuilt and now rededicated.
Focus on Yemen
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Aymenn Jawad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The situation in Yemen, scene of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, is of far greater consequence than the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and requires urgent attention. 
All Too Human
Monday, September 6, 2010 by Ron Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

According to his latest biographer, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal wasn't perfect. So what?
The Hate that Dares Speak its Name
Monday, September 6, 2010 by John Hinderaker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To the European Union's trade commissioner, anti-Semitism is "fundamentally against European values." If so, why has he maligned the Jews?