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Letting the Facts Speak
Monday, October 15, 2012 by Suzanne Ruta | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Lewis Gittler’s 1949 film The Earth Cries Out told the story of Jewish refugees traveling to Mandate Palestine—with a cast of real refugees in an Italian internment camp.
Romney Reaches Out to Palestinians
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Joshua Mitnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Candidate Mitt Romney now says he will re-start talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state.  Is this a flip-flop?  Or a promising opportunity?
Netanyahu Announces a January Election
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Yolande Knell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Prime Minister has called for an early election because, among other things, an early election is an election he thinks he can win.
European Muslims: The Quiet Revolution
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Ari Varon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It’s the radical Islamists who get the headlines.  But in the background, European Muslims, for the first time in Islamic history, may be developing a locally based Islamic-European identity.
A Rough Road from Bukhara to Forest Hills
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Steve Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Less prominent in New York than Jewish immigrants from Russia, Bukharian Jews form a small community in Queens.  Their road to American acculturation hasn’t been easy. 
Love and Death at Auschwitz
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Ofer Aderet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It was decades before the Israeli woman opened the diary written by her first love, who died at Auschwitz.  Now, aged 88, she has done so. 
Conservative Jews Walk the Intermarriage Tightrope
Friday, October 12, 2012 by Julie Wiener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The rabbi will counsel you, but stay off the bimah.  The synagogue will welcome you warmly—but you can’t actually join.  Intermarriage is here.  Conservative Judaism tries to adjust. 
The Middle East’s “Big Men”
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Some months after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, I sat at lunch with the aging Hosni Mubarak . . ."
Seventy Years of Soviet Zion
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by David M. Herszenhorn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite predictions of its demise, Birobidzhan, the autonomous Jewish region in Siberia founded by Stalin, still has a Jewish character and is seeing a rebirth in Jewish culture. 
Michal of Makhpelah
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Tamara Zieve | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On October 9th, 1968, 13-year-old Michal Arbel, daughter of the head of the Shin Bet, became the first Jew to enter the Cave of the Patriarchs in 700 years.