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Reverse Racism, Parisian-Style
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Corinne Mellul | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Obsessed with defining their national identity, the French are simultaneously paralyzed by the fear of being labeled Islamophobic.
A Mooving Tale
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Eugene Scheel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Sixty years ago, Morris Levy transported hundreds of pregnant Holsteins from Virginia to Israel to help jump-start the country's thriving dairy industry.
Rootless Cosmopolitan
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Louis Menand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a long-in-the-making biography, Michael Scammell attempts to unravel the hectic life and multifarious work of Arthur Koestler.
An Anniversary
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Charles Krauthammer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the completion of a quarter-century of weekly columns, the redoubtable writer pronounces himself tan, rested, and ready for the new era.
Sunset in Helena
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Ben Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The last Jews in an Arkansas river town.
Au Revoir et Shalom
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Ami Cammarella | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For an Israeli-born physician in Lille, life in France has become intolerable.
The Genius of Yiddish
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Benny Mer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thoughts on a new Hebrew translation of Sholem Aleichem's masterpiece.
A Trace of the Occult
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Nathaniel Popper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An exorcism ritual surfaces from the Cairo Genizah.
Tearing the Fabric
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The hundreds of secular educators urging young Israelis to refuse military service have forfeited all right to denounce religious soldiers objecting to evacuating settlements.
What American Aliya?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Haviv Rettig Gur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A quarrel between the Jewish Agency and a private organization obscures a more salient fact about American Jewish immigration to Israel.