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Baghdad on the St. LawrenceWednesday, May 26, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An acclaimed master of the French Canadian literary scene offers a unique Iraqi-Jewish viewpoint on life.The Perpetrators
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-awaited book by the German scholar Peter Longerich is a clear, accessible, and authoritative history of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews.Is Baseball a Zionist Sport?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Theodor Herzl would have endorsed the playful utopianism of a game struggling to take root in Israel.No Sale
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Avner Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the judgment of the leading historian of Israel's nuclear program, nothing supports the allegation that Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the mid-1970s.My Year of Reading Books
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
You will not know Judaism by dressing like a Hasid for a few months.Liberalism, Zionism, and Peter Beinart
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Liberals have long had their problems with Zionism—which, among other things, is a critique of the enduring deficiencies of liberalism.Free Speech and the Knesset
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why the right-wing Speaker of the House has vigorously opposed a move to revoke the immunity of Arab members who visited Libya.Reclaiming a Cochin Synagogue
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A massive restoration project will refurbish one of the oldest and most beautiful houses of worship in the heart of what was once Jewish India.
Israel’s Home FrontTuesday, May 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At precisely 11 A.M. tomorrow, May 26, the sirens of war will echo throughout Israel. The army is conducting its annual week-long series of home-front drills to prepare the police, hospitals, emergency services, volunteer agencies, and civilians to cope with the possibility of an unprecedented onslaught of rockets or missiles laden with high explosives or chemical warheads. Authorities are presenting the exercise as routine. Although civilians who can do so have been instructed to enter a protected area like a communal bomb shelter or private reinforced-concrete room, those for whom participation in the drill would cause "unreasonable disruption" have been advised...
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Shimon Samuels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A half-century after Israel captured and tried the draftsman of the Holocaust, another gray bureaucrat, in Tehran, plots with genocidal intent.