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Christopher Hitchens’s Jewish ProblemTuesday, May 28, 2013 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In another highlight from our archives, Benjamin Kerstein inquires into a revered writer's virulent hostility toward Judaism (December 13, 2010).
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Steven David | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Saddam Hussein torched Kuwait's oil fields. Bashar al-Assad has killed 70,000 of his own people. Why assume that Iran's autocracy will act rationally?Fear in France
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Clémence Boulouque | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Anti-Semitic attacks in France are becoming deadlier and more frequent, but the French public remains indifferent.Waiting for Abbas
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Ehud Olmert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"I completely gave up on having an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley. . . . I proposed a compromise on sovereignty over the Temple Mount." (Interview by Avi Issacharoff)Kafka on Trial
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Susanne Klingenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two new books show how, and how not, to approach the work of Franz Kafka, now that there is little original left to say.Lending Limits
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By allowing loans to be reformulated as business deals, the Talmud circumvents the Torah’s prohibition on usury. But there are limits to when this legal device should be used.