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Martin Gilbert’s LegacyTuesday, January 8, 2013 by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With his monumental works on the Holocaust, Zionism, and Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert deserves to be celebrated as not only a great Jewish historian but a great English historian.Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 2003, the Orr Commission blamed economic deprivation for riots by Israeli Arabs in support of the Second Intifada. But that narrative does not stack up.The Faith Stays in the Picture
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Yair Raveh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli cinema used to be a reliably religion-free zone. Not any more.There’s Occupied and There’s Occupied
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Northern Cyprus, conquered by Turkey and ethnically cleansed of Greek Cypriots, is clearly “occupied territory.” But Europeans, far from boycotting it, are buying homes there in droves.
It’s All Happening at the ZooMonday, January 7, 2013 by D. G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Howard Jacobson's latest novel, Zoo Time, is not immediately recognizable as Jewish fiction; but Jacobson again portrays the fear, uncertainty, and ambivalence that characterize the modern Jew.
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before Chavez’s assumption of power in 1999, Venezuela had no tradition of anti-Semitism. But his relentless attacks on Jews have driven over 20,000 of them to leave.By The Sweat of Thy Brow Shall Ye Live
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By not working and living at the taxpayers' expense, Israel's haredi men flout their marriage contracts, the Rabbis, and a basic premise of civil society.