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Israel Is No RogueWednesday, March 3, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Critics of Israel's actions in Dubai and elsewhere are completely wrong.Prize Find
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A broken pottery shard bears, in ink, the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered.Loving Israel
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the elites may think, the American people continue to favor Israel overwhelmingly.Lasting Pain
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Larry Rohter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new documentary focuses on the director of the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jew Süss and, among others, his Jewish descendants.Bubbe Meises
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Steve Jones | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Who is a Jew," as seen from the lab of a geneticist.
Are We One?Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The hate-fest known as "Israeli Apartheid Week," now taking place in cities around the globe, is bound to affect the morale of Diaspora Jews, if in different ways. Some may be induced to lower their pro-Israel profile, others to dissociate themselves from the Jewish state and its policies, still others to affirm their solidarity ever more resolutely. We have come a long way since the 1967 Six-Day War. Before that watershed event, Diaspora Jewish life was not noticeably animated by a vigorous commitment to Israel's cause. But the country's spectacular victory in war, in tandem with the energies released by the...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Stanley Fish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"For me, comfort at the highest level [is] identifying with a short, tough guy who is also Jewish"—Edward G. Robinson, for instance.The Universal in the Particular
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by David Aaronovitch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The all-new Jewish Museum of London shows every sign of becoming an important national institution.The Last Victims
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Arieh O'Sullivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's Holocaust Memorial has embarked on what may be the final opportunity to record the names of the murdered.
On the Heritage TrailTuesday, March 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Unlike Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not have to take a stroll on the Temple Mount to provoke Palestinian Arab leaders into threatening mayhem. Instead, Netanyahu simply announced a comprehensive plan to strengthen Israel's national heritage by rehabilitating and preserving archaeological and historic sites, developing historic trails, and conserving photographs, films, books, and music of archival value. "A people," he declared, "must know its past in order to ensure its future." Unveiled on February 2, the plan was greeted with a yawn by the mainstream Israeli media, mixed with a few deprecating remarks about Jewish chauvinism, and was largely ignored by Palestinians....