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Admitting France’s CrimesMonday, August 20, 2012 by François Hollande | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The challenge is to fight tirelessly against all forms of falsification of history: not only the insult of Holocaust denial, but also the temptation of relativism.”Why Does God Create?
Monday, August 20, 2012 by Russell E. Saltzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Certainly God has no need of creation. But a creator who doesn’t create is a contradiction.Golda, Golda, Get Lost
Monday, August 20, 2012 by Tamara Zieve | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1971, young Israelis of Mizrahi descent styled themselves as Israeli Black Panthers and declared war “against the Ashkenazi government.”The Writer’s Life
Monday, August 20, 2012 by David Rakoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Please,” they seem to beseech, “what alchemy, what ethereal fire transforms our wordy soup of glottals and fricatives into language and that language into writing . . .” (1999; by the recently deceased humorist)
Jews and GunsFriday, August 17, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Two mass shootings in the past month—in Aurora, Colorado and Oak Creek, Wisconsin—have focused American attention once again on the issue of guns. Are guns a Jewish issue?
Friday, August 17, 2012 by David Rothkopf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After the collapse of the Congress of Vienna settlement, Europe endured two world wars before establishing a new order. Israel is gearing up for a similar scenario in the Middle East.