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Spielberg’s Lincoln and the Jews: An Untold StoryMonday, January 14, 2013 by Lance J. Sussman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Lincoln represents a missed opportunity to show that Jews didn’t just turn up in America in the wake of Russian pogroms.
Monday, January 14, 2013 by Yehuda Schlesinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The campaign is on for the election of Israel's next Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi. Religious Zionist candidate, David Stav, warns that a haredi victory would see Israel "torn to shreds."The Jews of Middle Earth
Monday, January 14, 2013 by Jeffrey Saks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"I do think of the 'Dwarves' like Jews," wrote Tolkien, "at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue."The Children Britain Didn’t Save
Monday, January 14, 2013 by Fred Barschak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Kindertransport saved 10,000 from Nazi territory in the late 1930s. But when it came to rescuing 1,800 Jewish children from Vichy France in 1942, Britain turned its back.Gangs of Detroit
Monday, January 14, 2013 by Naomi Sandweiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What gangster Mickey Cohen was to Los Angeles, the Purple Gang was to Detroit—"a Jewish gang feared by even Al Capone’s Chicago mob."Morsi’s Media Circus
Monday, January 14, 2013 by Richard Behar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a recent TV interview, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi branded Jews "descendants of apes and pigs." Not one major American media outlet covered the story.