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Speaking What Must Be SpokenThursday, February 14, 2013 by Diane Cole | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The sheer number of books on the Holocaust has long demanded a guide to Holocaust literature that would be as accessible as it was comprehensive and scholarly. Now we have one.
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is a good thing that President Obama is planning his first visit to Israel. But will he arrive with a European peace plan aimed at forcing Israeli concessions?Access Denied
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Daniel Estrin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's Russian immigrants must prove their Jewish ancestry to obtain marriage licenses from the government. But Russia is making it increasingly difficult to access the Soviet archives.The Graveyard of Arabian Judaism
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Nimrod Raphaeli | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
19th-century Ottoman authorities brought a number of Iraqi Jews to Saudi Arabia to administer its oil-rich al-Ihsaa region. They are gone now, but their cemetery remains.Mahler: A Musical Messiah?
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Robert R. Reilly | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Born Jewish, but converted to Christianity, Gustav Mahler was never a true believer in either. But did he believe in the divinity of his music itself?At Home with Mickey Cohen
Thursday, February 14, 2013 by Ben Cosgrove | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen was a celebrity as well as a thug. When he posed for the cameras, though, he was just a family guy. (Photographs by Ed Clark)