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Betraying JabotinskyTuesday, October 30, 2012 by Jeff Barak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By forming an electoral pact with Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud may guarantee victory in the upcoming election; but will that come at the expense of the values on which the party was founded?Saving Sergeant Netanyahu
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Following his late brother Yoni to become a commando, Benjamin Netanyahu almost met Yoni's fate in his first battle: “I was nearly killed in a firefight inside the Suez Canal. I mean that literally.”The EU’s Israel Problem
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Daniel Hannan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The reason most Euro-enthusiasts resent Israel is that it is the supreme embodiment of the national principle—that is, of the desire of every people to form their own state.”Mr. Berlin Himself
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by John Shaw | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Irving Berlin is usually reckoned among the Great American Songbook composers, two new studies of his life and work show that he was perhaps the greatest of them all.
Art and Idolatry in AustriaTuesday, October 30, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Art transforms life through beauty but inspires a possessiveness unlike any other. Collectors tend toward obsession, which overwhelms morality; museums, like the medieval church, wash away sin with exhibitions for the public good.
Does Jacob Hate Esau?Monday, October 29, 2012 by Jerome A. Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jews have traditionally kept non-Jews at arm’s length. The rabbinic approach to anti-Semitism may be summarized as Halakhah hi b’yadu’a she-Eisav sonei et Yaakov, “It is an established normative principle that Esau hates Jacob.”