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The Hunting of the Moles
Friday, November 9, 2012 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The post-war West German government developed an extensive network of informants to counter far-Right extremism.  They may have done precisely the opposite.
Archeology Under Attack
Friday, November 9, 2012 by Christopher Torchia | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After a 90-year closure, the Turks have allowed archeological excavations near the Syrian border at Karkemish, site of a major biblical battle.  But now another battle threatens the site. 
Reinman’s Tragicomedy
Friday, November 9, 2012 by Gideon Remez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It was a long, winding journey that took Paul Reinman, born Reinmann, from drawing the great synagogue of Worms, Germany to inking comics in America. 
The Real Hypocrites
Friday, November 9, 2012 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On Peter Beinart’s blog, Natan Sharansky was called a human rights hypocrite.  “I want Palestinians to have all the rights in the world,” Sharansky answers, “except the power to destroy me.”
Can Jews Write History? Can Jews Write History?
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In his well-known book Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, historian Eric Hobsbawm made the remarkable assertion that “no serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist.”