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Israel’s Apology ProblemTuesday, August 23, 2011 by Ely Karmon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apologizing to Ankara over the Mavi Marmara incident, or to Cairo over the deaths of three Egyptian soldiers, might bring short-term calm—at the certain price of long-term harm.The Prophet
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In two magnificent novellas, published before World War II and now available in a new English edition, the Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein devastatingly foresaw the shape of things to come.Flogging and the Rabbis
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Michael L. Satlow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A once-common practice, recently recommended for revival by an American criminologist, is discussed at length in the Talmud. Barbarous, or something more complex and perhaps even effective?
Too Many Museums?Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Although the paint is still wet on Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History, an announcement has just been made of a planned National Museum of the Jewish People in Washington, D.C., steps from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and not far from two other Jewish museums.
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
So long as Hamas can attack Israel any time it wants, it can effectively veto any chance of peace with Palestinian moderates—should any turn up.In Tiktin, Without Jews
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to European attitudes toward the Jewish people, what, in the end, has changed since the Holocaust? Clearly, not enough.Right of Reply
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Joseph J. Siev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the heated response of a prominent Reconstructionist rabbi to my article concerning the present condition of his movement.Crown Heights and the Forward
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While others temporized or prevaricated about the August 1991 riots, a few named them for what they were, and the Forward, its then-editor recalls, led the way.Missing Ingredient
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jewish theology is whatever Jews happen to be thinking about religion, then it is idiosyncratic and meaningless; so how should it be defined?
Get Ready for Durban IIIOn September 22, one month from today, world bodies will gather at the UN General Assembly in New York on the 10th anniversary of the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa.