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Israel’s Europe LobbyFriday, February 15, 2013 by Naftali Balanson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Israeli law has forced NGOs to reveal that they receive much of their funding from the same European governments that uncritically support their allegations against Israel.What Is Hungary Hiding?
Friday, February 15, 2013 by Bill Gladstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An expert at Yad Vashem is convinced that a massive trove of documents on Austro-Hungarian Jews lies hidden in Budapest's state archives—and he’s determined to gain access to it.The Truth About Crucifixion
Friday, February 15, 2013 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New analysis of the only remains of a crucified man, discovered in Jerusalem, suggests that victims were not nailed to the cross but tied to it. Either way, death was by asphyxiation.The Problem with Gay Marriage
Friday, February 15, 2013 by Gilles Bernheim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"All the affection in the world will not suffice to produce the basic psychological structures that address the child’s need to know where he comes from."Obama Goes to Israel, Finally
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is a good thing that President Obama is planning his first visit to Israel. But will he arrive with a European peace plan aimed at forcing Israeli concessions?Access Denied
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Daniel Estrin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's Russian immigrants must prove their Jewish ancestry to obtain marriage licenses from the government. But Russia is making it increasingly difficult to access the Soviet archives.The Graveyard of Arabian Judaism
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Nimrod Raphaeli | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
19th-century Ottoman authorities brought a number of Iraqi Jews to Saudi Arabia to administer its oil-rich al-Ihsaa region. They are gone now, but their cemetery remains.Mahler: A Musical Messiah?
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Robert R. Reilly | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Born Jewish, but converted to Christianity, Gustav Mahler was never a true believer in either. But did he believe in the divinity of his music itself?At Home with Mickey Cohen
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Ben Cosgrove | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen was a celebrity as well as a thug. When he posed for the cameras, though, he was just a family guy. (Photographs by Ed Clark)The Pope’s Jewish Legacy
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 by Brad Hirschfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pope Benedict XVI antagonized some Jewish leaders. But he confronted the Holocaust and the Church's historic persecution of Jews with honesty and integrity.

