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Defrauding Holocaust Survivors
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Three Claims Conference employees have been convicted of fraudulently claiming $57 million meant for Holocaust survivors.  But the Claims Conference denies institutional responsibility.
Our Mothers, Our Fathers
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Thomas Rogers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new German miniseries depicting the cruelty of soldiers during World War II shows that "the crimes of the Wehrmacht are no longer a taboo," but "a well-integrated theme in German history."
Rage against the Rebbe
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Baruch Sterman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Pshiskhe Hasidim challenged the establishment belief that "only the great and holy Rebbe could bring salvation," maintaining instead that spirituality comes from within.
Bad Education
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Vigen Guroian | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"I try to explain to my pupils that envy is despicable," wrote Martin Buber, "and at once I feel the secret resistance of those who are poorer than their comrades."
Hawking of Arabia
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Would Professor Hawking ever survive in any Arab country or under the Palestinian autocracy he shamefully defends?"
Whitewashing White Supremacy
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Delegates at the World Jewish Congress expected Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, to commit to eliminating anti-Semitism from public life. They were disappointed.
The Pleasures of Anti-Semitism
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Eve Garrard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"You can’t miss the relish with which some people compare Jews to the Nazis, or the fake sorrow with which they bemoan the supposed fact that Jews have brought hatred on themselves."
Prolonging the Inevitable
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Private donations to the haredi kollel system in Israel help to ensure that haredi men never acquire the skills they will need when they are forced to enter the workforce.
Lost Cause?
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Francis J. Caponi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new book argues that the root of the conflict between science and religion is the reductive modern understanding of causality—which many scientists are now rejecting.
Jerusalem Unified
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Today, on Yom Yerushalayim, Israel commemorates the unification of Jerusalem, when the IDF wrested East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordanian control.  Here's how it happened.