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From the Four CornersTuesday, May 24, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Are most Jews white? The impression that this is so is partially the result of the calamitous and decimating events of the 20th century, in which the great centers of Europe were lost to Nazi genocide while those of the Middle East and North Africa were lost to Islam.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Henry Foy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The tiny Jewish community of New Delhi is knit together by powerful ties of tradition and solidarity, and by a spirit of religious accommodation.Crossing Over
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Lorraine Adams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How a Jewish girl from the New York suburbs became a polemicist for Islamism.The Ingathering
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Ofer Aderet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Almost a century before their co-religionists reached out definitively to Ethiopian Jews, a researcher named Jacques Faitlovitch laid the ground for their future ingathering.The Kugel-Kimchi Complex
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Kathy Seal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A study based on a sample of 37 intermarried Asian-Jewish couples found that overwhelmingly the children are being raised Jewish.
Sympathy for the DevilMonday, May 23, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Occupying a place of particular infamy in Jewish collective memory is an 18th-century serial apostate, sexual deviant, messianic pretender, and chameleonic charlatan. His name was Jacob Frank.
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace enunciated by President Obama on May 19 undermines his own message to the Arab peoples and can result in a dangerous rift between Jerusalem and Washington. (Benjamin Netanyahu responds to the President.[Video]) Assad Alone
Monday, May 23, 2011 by B. Chernitsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
His friends in the extremist "resistance" camp are joining his opponents in the "moderate" camp to denounce and abandon the Syrian dictator.Keeping Assad Out in the Cold
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the massacre zone that is Syria, the country's dictator has admitted that "mistakes" were made. The ending will be grim.
Israel and Western GuiltFriday, May 20, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Confront Your Privilege." So reads a "subtly coercive" sign on display at tony American liberal-arts colleges. Why coercive? Because, as Wilfred McClay explains in an illuminating recent essay in First Things, what such signs are really telling the students is, "Feel Guilty."