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The Peace Distraction
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Richard N. Haass | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It's easy but dangerous to exaggerate the centrality of the Israel-Palestinian issue either to the politics of the Middle East or to the national-security interests of the United States.
Poland, Russia, and Their Jews
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Antony Polonsky's sweeping new history of East European Jewry is a triumph of erudition, clarity, and balance—and an eloquent rebuke to academic obscurantism.
What Does Israel’s Censor Censor?
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Christoph Schult | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An interview with the state's guardian of publishable intelligence: "Only up to one percent of all items submitted . . . are totally disqualified."
Verdi at Theresienstadt
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Jim Lowe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Vermont, a performance of Verdi's Requiem will commemorate the imprisoned Jews whose singing defied their Nazi persecutors.
Politics and Britain’s Jews
Monday, April 26, 2010 by Richard Millet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the run-up to the May 6 general election, the issue of Israel is being shamelessly manipulated by more than one British party.
Two Palestinian Authorities
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The political divide between Ramallah and Gaza is no more reconcilable than the same, larger divide in the Middle East as a whole.
The Women of Modern Orthodoxy
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Nuances in a campaign for religious leadership: it's not all about becoming rabbis.
“My Home Now”
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Nurit Wurgaft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On being German and non-Jewish and living in Israel.
The Hindu-Zionist Alliance
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The power of the growing India-Israel connection is only beginning to make itself felt.
Rare Illumination
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Israel Museum will put on display a restored 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.