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The Tolerance Police
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Abe Greenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For some supporters of the planned mosque at Ground Zero, preaching tolerance is just another way of impugning the arguments of opponents they cannot tolerate.
A Film Unfinished
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Gary Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.
On the 3rd-Century Synagogue at Dura-Europos
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Meyer Schapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Where the artists borrowed from others, and where they were original and distinctive: a 1968 talk by a pre-eminent art historian. (PDF; Schapiro comments begin on page 6.)
Making the Middle East Less Important
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Michael Mandelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

No available policy can make the region safe for the U.S. and the world; better to act so as to make the world safe from the region's pathologies.
My Summer in Israel
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Ahmed Moustafa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?
City of Refuge
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Masada Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A visit to the former Jewish areasĀ of Shanghai, where thousands of refugees from Nazism found shelter.
No Census Consensus
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Carl Bialik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Census figures for American Muslims are inherently faulty; so, for different reasons, are the figures for American Jews.
A Study in Contrasts
Friday, August 13, 2010 by George F. Will | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If Barack Obama is a progressive post-nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu is his antithesis.
Where Christian Zionism Was Born
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Shalom Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why did certain 19th-century British thinkers and statesmen identify with "God's chosen people" and advocate their restoration to their ancient land?
Lost in Mistranslation
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Joel M. Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If you read the Bible only in English, you won't quite get the 23rd Psalm and you might misinterpret what you shouldn't do with your neighbor's wife.