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Dennis Ross’ Legacy
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Ron Kampeas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While the peace process seems as moribund as when the U.S. Mideast envoy last left it in 2000, Iran's isolation might be counted as Ross' success. 
Tropical Storm
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Josh Lambert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Decades before his obscenity trials would prove him right, Henry Miller wrote in his ambivalently anti-Semitic Tropic of Cancer that "the first people to turn to when you're down and out are the Jews." (Includes obscene language.)
In the Red Army
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Half a million Jews fought for the Soviet Union during its bloody encounter with Nazi Germany; many felt they had "an extra score to settle with Hitler" after finding out about the Holocaust.
Finally, a Palestinian “Peace Now”? Finally, a Palestinian “Peace Now”?
Monday, November 14, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

What if a group of youthful Palestinian activists, fed up with Hamas and Fatah for leading the Palestinian Arabs over and over down bloody, self-defeating dead ends, were to emerge as a new political and social force—something like a Palestinian "Peace Now"?
Persian Incursion
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Michael Peck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Want to know what would happen if Israel launched an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities? There's a board game for that.
The “MaƱana” Approach
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Ari Shavit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The recent UN report confirming Iran's nuclear capabilities has a disturbing subtext: for a decade, Israeli intelligence postponed taking necessary action.
Check Mating
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Ori J. Lenkinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Israeli organization offering a liberal alternative to Rabbinate-approved weddings has met its end.
Kosher Fiction Kosher Fiction
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Haredi adventure stories are a curious but popular genre. There is the 2005 Yiddish-language film A gesheft ("A Deal"), the story of a Hasid-gone-bad out for revenge on the pious man he wrongly blames for his childhood misfortunes.
Something Rotten?
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A visitor to Denmark describes the local Jewish community's struggles over mixed seating, kosher butter, and carrying umbrellas on Shabbat. The year? 1909.
Release Marwan Barghouti
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Avinoam Bar-Yosef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel isn't the only government afraid of releasing Palestinian terrorists. There's one whom Mahmoud Abbas would be happy to keep behind bars.