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Hizballah’s Holiday HomeTuesday, August 21, 2012 by Nicholas Kulish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Europe has cultivated a tacit détente with Hizballah, whereby if Hizballah does not stage attacks, European governments do not interfere with its fundraising and organizational work.
Through Night and FogMonday, August 20, 2012 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
My father and I visited Auschwitz for the first time this summer. It was toward the end of a long trip to Eastern Europe. We had already gone to the killing fields and forests of Lithuania, and to Warsaw, where my father broke down . . .
Monday, August 20, 2012 by David Sugarman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hoping to find spiritual uplift, the author of Moby-Dick made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land only to find Jerusalem “half melancholy, half farcical, like all the rest of the world.”Admitting France’s Crimes
Monday, August 20, 2012 by François Hollande | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The challenge is to fight tirelessly against all forms of falsification of history: not only the insult of Holocaust denial, but also the temptation of relativism.”Why Does God Create?
Monday, August 20, 2012 by Russell E. Saltzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Certainly God has no need of creation. But a creator who doesn’t create is a contradiction.Golda, Golda, Get Lost
Monday, August 20, 2012 by Tamara Zieve | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1971, young Israelis of Mizrahi descent styled themselves as Israeli Black Panthers and declared war “against the Ashkenazi government.”The Writer’s Life
Monday, August 20, 2012 by David Rakoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Please,” they seem to beseech, “what alchemy, what ethereal fire transforms our wordy soup of glottals and fricatives into language and that language into writing . . .” (1999; by the recently deceased humorist)