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Havel and the JewsThursday, December 22, 2011 by Paul Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rita Klimova, Havel's ambassador to the U.S., was a Jew who lived on Riverside Drive. But the connections among Israel, the Jews, and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution went much deeper. (Interview by Marc Tracy)Blaming the Jews
Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It would be Jewish journalists, of course, who have come up with the smartest ways to package anti-Jewish sentiment for a U.S. audience in the presidential election season.
LoofThursday, December 22, 2011 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For the millions of Israeli citizens drafted into the Israel Defense Forces over the past 60 years, military service has involved patriotism, community, self-sacrifice—and Loof, Israel's kosher Spam. But a new generation of soldiers is about to experience military service without the familiar pink meat.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Eliezer Brodt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Legend says the great 12th-century Spanish hymnist reached Eretz Yisrael but was killed at Jerusalem's city gate. Genizah documents suggest that the legend was based on fact.The Iranian Schindler
Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Brian Wheeler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hitler declared Iran an Aryan nation. But Iran's head diplomat in World War II Paris used his connections and personal fortune to save thousands of Iranian Jews living in France.Eco Chamber
Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Paula Marantz Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With The Prague Cemetery's virulently anti-Semitic protagonist, Umberto Eco may have joined those famous authors whose "editors grew afraid to edit them even as reviewers grew unwilling to pan them."Don’t Make BDS a Religion
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by Lisa Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
This speech by Amira Hass, a prominent Israeli journalist of the left—and its presentation by an Israeli website—show how the anti-Israel boycott debate has been affected by Israeli law. (Video)Jewish Jamaica, Then and Now
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by Paul Foer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews have been in Jamaica for centuries, and a Kingston congregation has just engaged its first full-time rabbi in 40 years. He'll do services, classes, and conversions. He's also a scuba diver.
The First War of National LiberationWednesday, December 21, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This is the 2,179th anniversary of the world's first war of national liberation. There have been many since. To a surprising extent, such wars have followed the pattern first established by the Maccabees. They, like later heads of independence movements, were leaders of a people conquered and occupied by a great empire.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
How to make sense of Joseph? This week we learn of his nearly pathological efforts to ensnare, baffle, accuse, imprison, and shame his brothers—the same brothers who, decades earlier, sold him into slavery. Now he is Grand Vizier of Egypt, and he gets a chance to show them who's boss.