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Führer FictionsFriday, March 23, 2012 by Richard J. Evans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What might do as research for a novel won't do as preparation for a serious work of history, and one celebrated novelist's biography of Hitler is nothing short of a travesty.Socially-Conscious Study Hall
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 19th-century letter attests to a London institution, open to anyone from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily, that was responsible for creating numerous charities and a school for children.Profiling the Professionals
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Steven M. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the work of Jewish communal agencies is a much-studied topic, remarkably little attention has been paid to the professionals who staff them—until now.
Ardor, or ArchitectureFriday, March 23, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A look inside three of the twentieth century's most interesting careers in architecture: the world-renowned Israeli Moshe Safdie, on the verge of shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970; the Polish-born, polarizing Daniel Libeskind, now at work on rebuilding New York's World Trade Center; and the mythic postwar master Louis Kahn.
Friday, March 23, 2012 by Aaron David Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From the recklessness of election-year politics to the Capitol Hill Knesset: here, a half-dozen of the worst leaps of logic about U.S. politics and Middle East policies.Nowruz Peres?
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Shimon Peres | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the Iranian new year, Israel's president appealed to the Iranian people to oppose the bellicose ambitions of their government, and warned them of the consequences if they do not. (Video)Together We Stand
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the wake of the murders in Toulouse, all of France must stand united against anti-Semitism, which is an attack on the republican ideals which all of France holds dear.
Marching to JerusalemThursday, March 22, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts—all these nonviolent techniques have been employed in support of the Palestinian cause, but violence has remained at the core of the enterprise. For decades, well-meaning people have suggested that a wholehearted embrace of nonviolence would do more for the Palestinians than their continuing resort to terrorism.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Muhammad Merah, who has confessed to perpetrating the murders in Toulouse, appears to be a member of Fursan al-'Izza, the French branch of Al-Qaeda, profiled here.Europe’s Rising Tide
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Classical anti-Semitic attitudes are not only widespread across Europe but have risen significantly since 2009 in traditionally more tolerant countries, such as Britain and France.