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Just the Facts?Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For historians there are no innocent decisions about where to begin and what to include; witness Michael Brenner's A Short History of the Jews.Show Me the Way
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by Lester Feder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A journalist with little Jewish background encounters an African-American Hebrew congregation.Israel and Western Surrender
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Shelby Steele | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Islamic rage meets the West's deficit of moral authority, and the Jews are being scapegoated again.Iran and the U.S.: Who’s Containing Whom?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Marc Ginsberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Exploiting uncanny resourcefulness, new alliances, terror, and American dithering, Iran has achieved impressive results.Antioch Divide
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Adele Reinhartz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Examining the stark attitudes toward Judaism of the early Christian theologian Ignatius, a new book revises current thinking about the "parting of the ways" between the two religions.Jewish Treasures
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Jose Rodriguez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A magnificent collection of precious music, art, rare books, and historical archives has found a new home in California. (Illustrated)Out of Eygpt
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Ari Greenspan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Visits to the dwindling Jewish communities of Alexandria and Cairo disclose remnants of a recently vibrant civilization.
Isolating GazaTuesday, June 22, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A week ago, in the aftermath of the failed attempt by a Turkish flotilla to defy Israel's maritime quarantine of the Gaza Strip and the ensuing deaths of nine Turkish mercenaries on board, foreign ministers of the 27-nation European Union agreed that Israel's blockade of the Hamas-governed enclave was "unsustainable" and "politically counterproductive." Meeting in Luxembourg, they heard Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign-policy czar, proclaim that Gaza's "dangerous isolation" had to end.
Identity CheckMonday, June 21, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Central to a recent, hotly-debated essay by Peter Beinart is the contention that younger American Jews, overwhelmingly of liberal disposition, are increasingly distanced and alienated from Israel—and that the major reason why is to be found in Israel's own posture and behavior. Is this indeed so?
Monday, June 21, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel may pay the price of Washington's pursuit of "moderate elements" within Hizballah and other extremist groups.