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Lying about Pictures
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Clint Talbott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Photographs of Nazi atrocities in the former Soviet Union were made to serve many state purposes; seldom, if ever, were the victims identified as Jews.
Bubbles to the Last Squirt
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Sarah Elton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A handful of seltzer men maintain a Jewish habit as old and as valuable as brisket. 
Progressive? Then Don’t Boycott Israel
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Ben S. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Western Left is championing a movement whose aim is not to effect a change in policy but to dismantle the Jewish state.
In Praise of Jewish Books
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Simon Holloway | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite its complexity, self-referentiality, and esotericism, Jewish literature is not the property of academics, the learned, or the devout. But can it survive the age of the iPad?
A Disturbing Trend?
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hammered by government propaganda describing him as an Israeli agent, and abandoned by Washington, a Malaysian opposition leader has started complaining of "Zionist aggression."
In Praise of the WASP
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Noah Feldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

America's founding elite put into action an ideal of meritocracy that ended its own exclusive privilege.
Something’s Rotten In Brussels
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An EU proposal to re-label kosher meat smacks of common prejudice.
On Iran, a Sham Realism
Friday, June 25, 2010 by Leon Wieseltier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Advanced American liberals, exemplified by the President and the columnist Fareed Zakaria, have perversely forsworn democracy as a central objective of U.S. foreign policy.
The Lieberman Plan
Friday, June 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's foreign minister has issued a detailed blueprint for the creation of two "largely homogenous states."
Saying it in Ivrit
Friday, June 25, 2010 by Jennifer Medina | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At a Brooklyn charter school, where one-third of the students are not Jewish, all subjects are taught in English and Hebrew.