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A “Holocaust Complex”?
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Yair Sheleg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It is not only the Israeli Right that was traumatized by the Holocaust and thus views the world with apprehension. The Israeli peace camp also has a distorted view of the world due to that very same trauma.
Calibrating Darkness
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Henry Tylbor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the Warsaw Ghetto, a youngster watches, hears, and mentally records the sights, sounds, and sensations of encroaching murder.
Hitler and Pharaoh
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Jeff Jacoby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The nexus of Passover and Yom Hashoah teaches a single lesson—that persecution of Jews was preceded by the persecutors' sense of victimhood.
Haredim in the Holocaust
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Meir Wikler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While Yad Vashem downplays the experiences of the religious in the Shoah, Haredim have authored their own books and are building their own museums to teach their children and to memorialize the slain.
P.O.R.K.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Leah Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Our children have suddenly become ultra-Orthodox. What do we do?" P.O.R.K. to the rescue!
Face to Face
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Gavi Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

One was a talmudist, the other an ontologist—yet the two figures' work reveals striking similarities. Either it was a case of plagiarism or an instance of cosmic significance.
A Myth for the Misbegotten
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ten years after the Jenin massacre-that-wasn't, what has the press done to correct its fabrications, and to guard against further calumnies?
Israel, Where’s Your Instagram?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Matt Marshall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israeli entrepreneurs are hitting base hits all year long but they can't seem to get into the World Series.
A Fatwa against Nuclear Arms?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Tariq Alhomayed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After three decades of Iran's using religion, sectarianism, and even the Palestinian cause for its own ends, are we really expected to trust Tehran on the basis of . . . a religious fatwa?
A Real Titanic Love Story A Real Titanic Love Story
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Philip Getz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

One hundred years ago today, the RMS Carpathia pulled into New York's Pier 54 carrying 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster. Most of the survivors were women and children from first class. But Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest and possibly one of the oldest women on board, was not among them.