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No Balancing ActThursday, March 3, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For young athletes with a strong Jewish identity, tradition will always trump sports, even if it means losing a competition.The Unremembered
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Shelomo Alfassa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bulgaria boasts of being the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population. The reality is far more compromising.From the Rock
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Jim Lauria | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Masters at creating usable water, Israelis are also among the world's most ardent conservationists.Dirty Jokes and Wedding Jesters
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In July 1661, abusive and aggressive jokers, a fixture of Eastern European Jewish life, were exempted from a rabbinic ban on merrymaking—and modern Jewish humor was born.A Fierce Legacy
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rather than being imported into the Middle East as a byproduct of modern European imperialism, violence and oppression was long an integral part of Islamic political culture.The Vatican vs. the “Zionist Tsunami”
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Slander of Israel is growing among important Catholic journalists and in the precincts of the Vatican Secretariat of State; the Pope should reverse the wave.
Follow the Money
The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked—shocked—to discover that Muammar Qaddafi is a very bad man. So the once venerable institution is diverting some of the $2.5 million pledged through Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam into a scholarship fund for Libyan students.
Hamas: Wait and SeeWednesday, March 2, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked—shocked—to discover that Muammar Qaddafi is a very bad man. So the once venerable institution is diverting some of the $2.5 million pledged through Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam into a scholarship fund for Libyan students.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Mark A. Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas's ambivalence toward the uprising in Egypt indicates a lack of confidence in its ability to forestall or contain similar developments in Gaza.No Way Back
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by William Shawcross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An epic new work recounts the story of the millions, including survivors of the Holocaust, displaced by the horrors of the German war machine, and of the men and women who labored heroically to succor them.Neutron Stars & Matzah Balls
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Miriam Coleman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is there something Jewish about astronomy? On the "amiable collision" of science and religion as viewed from a childhood in Pasadena, California.