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Educate and InnovateTuesday, October 26, 2010 by Melissa Klapper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Examining the central role played by women in teaching American Jews, a collection of essays looks beyond religious school to settlement houses, camps, children's literature, adult education, and the arts.
Who is Ed Miliband, and What Does He Want?Tuesday, October 26, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With the Conservatives now in power in Britain, the Labor party has been sorting out not only its personnel but its policies, including toward Israel and the Middle East. In his campaign for the party's leadership, in which he narrowly edged out his brother David, Ed Miliband pledged to visit the area to see first-hand "what is happening on the ground."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 by Margalit Fox | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sol Steinmetz—American rabbi and cantor, linguist and lexicographer, etymologist and authority on Yiddish—died at age eighty.Dona Gracia, Zionist Hero
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 by Greer Fay Cashman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Born 500 years ago, she was not only the wealthiest woman in the world but, in her thinking, more than three centuries ahead of Theodor Herzl.
Was Lenin Jewish?Monday, October 25, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Bolshevik Revolution undertook to change history. In line with that aim, its leaders set out to control the writing of history. The scholar Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who was born and studied in the Soviet Union, learned the hard way that history is shaped by how information is managed and made available. Confronting the challenge head-on, he has published a book, Lenin's Jewish Question, about the ancestry of the man who masterminded the 1917 Revolution and became the iron-fisted dictator of the early Soviet state.
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Robert D. Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The benign East Asian model of the religion is threatened by the extremist Saudis on one side, the materialistic Chinese on the other. We should be rooting for the Chinese.The Great Engagement Swindle
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Since the U.S. joined it last year, the UN Human Rights Council has praised the Sudanese for re-electing a president indicted for genocide, ignored atrocities in the Congo, and demonized Israel.Abraham’s Progeny?
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A stunning exhibit at the New York Public Library gathers rare works of the three "Abrahamic faiths," stressing similarities but ignoring historically momentous differences.Larger than Life
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Amos Kollek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Teddy Kollek's son recalls childhood encounters with two of Israel's national heroes: the humorless, imposing David Ben-Gurion, and the blunt, courageous, womanizing Moshe Dayan.The Islamist
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An otherwise credible new book traces the intellectual development of Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of radical Islamism, while skating over his fanatical anti-Semitism.