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Martin Gilbert’s LegacyTuesday, January 8, 2013 by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With his monumental works on the Holocaust, Zionism, and Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert deserves to be celebrated as not only a great Jewish historian but a great English historian.Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 2003, the Orr Commission blamed economic deprivation for riots by Israeli Arabs in support of the Second Intifada. But that narrative does not stack up.The Faith Stays in the Picture
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Yair Raveh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli cinema used to be a reliably religion-free zone. Not any more.There’s Occupied and There’s Occupied
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Northern Cyprus, conquered by Turkey and ethnically cleansed of Greek Cypriots, is clearly “occupied territory.” But Europeans, far from boycotting it, are buying homes there in droves.Hugo Chavez and the Jews
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before Chavez’s assumption of power in 1999, Venezuela had no tradition of anti-Semitism. But his relentless attacks on Jews have driven over 20,000 of them to leave.By The Sweat of Thy Brow Shall Ye Live
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By not working and living at the taxpayers' expense, Israel's haredi men flout their marriage contracts, the Rabbis, and a basic premise of civil society.Israel’s Second Joseph
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Liel Leibovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Placed in charge of rationing food in the nascent State of Israel, Dov Yosef was widely hated and readily forgotten. But no one went hungry.Love Makes the Melody Immortal!
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Inbal Freund-Novick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent concert in Berlin, featuring cantors and choirs from across Europe, has brought the music of Louis Lewandowski back home.Workers’ Rights
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Jewish law does not require an employer to offer severance pay to a dismissed employee, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein enshrined it as an American Jewish custom.Judaism’s Intellectual Boot Camp
Friday, January 4, 2013 by David Brinn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"One great religious leader can move a community, one great political leader can shoulder a nation, and one intellectual leader can change hearts and minds."

