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Bloc PartyMonday, April 30, 2012 by Colin Campbell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York's ultra-Orthodox citizens don't watch TV or follow sports. What do they pay attention to? Politics. And more and more, politicians are paying attention back.The Times and Kenneth Libo
Monday, April 30, 2012 by Karl Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"The horror," the historian said, "is to find a one-column headline on Page 16 of the New York Times saying, ‘One Million Jews Killed.'"
The Move that Dare Not Speak Its NameMonday, April 30, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Recent years have seen a flurry of reports, studies, and worried discussions about strengthening Diaspora Jewry's ties to Israel. But what about strengthening the ties to Israel—or, for that matter, to the Diaspora—of the growing numbers of Israelis who live abroad?
Monday, April 30, 2012 by Laurent Binet and Garth Risk Hallberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One writer at work on the (false) memoirs of an old SS veteran reads another's bestselling, prize-accruing (false) memoirs of another SS veteran.What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Friday, April 27, 2012 by Paula Fredriksen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until very recently, scholarly work on the Jewishness of Christianity has been a largely Christian project, but over the past fifty years, in ever-larger numbers, Jewish scholars have joined in.The Stranger in Our Midst
Friday, April 27, 2012 by David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even if we cannot eradicate the complexity of our tradition's attitude to conversion, we must understand the pain it causes for those who seek to join us.
Going the DistanceFriday, April 27, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel is a nation-state. In contrast, Diaspora Jewry—in particular, American Jewry—is a network of voluntary communities, constituting not just different structures but different life-worlds. While it is usually taken for granted that nation-states and their respective diasporas will grow apart, with Jews the issue is hotly debated.
Friday, April 27, 2012 by Emanuele Ottolenghi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gary Sick's success is indicative of how lucrative stridently politicized pseudo-research on the Middle East can be.Darkness Visible
Friday, April 27, 2012 by Robert Zaretsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Himmler and Heydrich were careerists. This is not to say they were not anti-Semitic: They were, rabidly so. But fanatical anti-Semitism was also a good career move in Nazi Germany.Cyrus the Unappreciated Great
Friday, April 27, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No Gentile is treated with such reverence in the Bible as Cyrus. But his example shows just how alien Iran's recent rulers are to the long history of Persia and its people.