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One Family at a Time
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by David Crossland | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The International Tracing Service has helped Holocaust survivors find their families since 1946.  But now its records are open for research on larger questions of the Holocaust.
Start-Up Nation, Start-Up Choices
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by David Shamah | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel is living up to its hype as the “start-up nation,” a great place to launch a high-tech company.  But exactly where in Israel should an entrepreneur put down roots?
Solomon Remembers
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Andrew McCulloch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The poet Mick Imlah on King Solomon’s efforts to recollect and depict his “world of wives”—700 of them, not to mention the 300 concubines. (Poem)
Defeat Hamas. There, I Said It.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite Iron Dome’s success, says Roberts, U.S. commentators have, wrongly, “embraced the assumption that there is simply no way to prevail politically or militarily over Hamas.”
Vayishlah: Notes on Camp
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

Did Jacob have one camp, two camps, or three? In a chapter about camps, it would seem to matter. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:23
The Twenty-Seventh Man The Twenty-Seventh Man
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On the night of August 12, 1952, a group of Yiddish writers was executed on Joseph Stalin’s orders for the crime of writing while Jewish.  The executions were the tragic culmination of the grand romance between Jewish intellectuals and Marxism.  
The Story of Iron Dome
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Charles Levinson and Adam Entous | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It was opposed by the top brass and dismissed by American officials; but in seven years, Iron Dome went from a pipe dream to Israel's greatest defensive asset.