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Lessons from the Master
Friday, October 26, 2012 by Efraim Halevy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Mossad’s former Deputy Director says we should stop calling Iran an existential threat: “It is a terrible mistake to tell your enemy that it is in his power to destroy you." (Interview by Aaron David Miller)
Secular Jerusalem Fights Back
Friday, October 26, 2012 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After years of setbacks, Jerusalem's secular residents have begun to push back against attempts by the city's growing Haredi community to impose religious mores on the general population.
Scene of the Crime
Friday, October 26, 2012 by Morgan Meis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Rotterdam’s Kunsthal Museum was recently robbed of six major paintings—and a minor work by Jewish artist Meyer de Haan.  Was the de Haan theft a mistake?  Or the key to the crime?
Promises, Promises Promises, Promises
Thursday, October 25, 2012 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

City of Promises, a new three-volume history of Jewish New York, is remarkable for the complex metamorphoses it explains—and for the 21st century transformation it doesn't mention.
Obama, Romney, and the Jews
Thursday, October 25, 2012 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Voters will not necessarily have Israel in mind—but for those who do, the choice has never seemed clearer.
Strindberg’s Inferno
Thursday, October 25, 2012 by Brooke Allen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Yes, August Strindberg took some racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic positions.  But at significant moments of his life he vigorously championed both Jews and women.
British Brain Drain
Thursday, October 25, 2012 by Ben Elton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the demise of Jews' College, British Jews who want to become Orthodox rabbis are pursuing their education in the United States and Israel—and they’re not coming back.
Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Jews
Thursday, October 25, 2012 by Harry Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While Roosevelt was resisting calls to admit child refugees from Germany (and badmouthing Jews in private), his predecessor was out campaigning on behalf of European Jewry.