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Trivializing the HolocaustMonday, May 2, 2011 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The impulse to turn the Holocaust into a metaphor for intolerance, far from making genocide unthinkable, has helped make it seem as commonplace as schoolyard bullying.Is This the Palestinian Revolution?
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Obama administration cannot accept the Fatah-Hamas deal, and must either hope the pact falters or consider new strategies.The Legacy of John Paul II
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Daniel Shoer Roth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The future pope's contact with a vibrant Jewish community during his Polish childhood is what prompted him to lead the Church toward reconciliation with Jews and a relationship with Israel.What are the Ezekiel Plates?
Monday, May 2, 2011 by David Parsons and Florence Bache | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A set of 66 stone tiles may, or may not, be among the oldest existing biblical texts ever found.
Calibrating DarknessMonday, May 2, 2011 by Henry Tylbor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and then of Auschwitz and Majdanek, Henry Tylbor (1929–2009) eventually settled in New York where he wrote and taught. A polymath, and fluent in several languages, he was especially interested in the fields of linguistics, neuropsychology, the sociology of culture, and their intersections. The present work of autobiographical fiction is among the manuscripts left at his death. In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it appears here for the first time.—The Editors
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Israel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the controversial expeditions in the City of David turn out to have yielded, they have definitively exposed the baselessness of Palestinian claims about the site. Apologetics and Aesthetics
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Howard Jacobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Improving on Holocaust denial, a British television series has depicted the Holocaust in all its horrorThere’s a Key in My Challah
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Jeffrey Saks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the origin of the post-Passover tradition known as "shliss challah."
Do Israeli and American Jews Need Each Other?Friday, April 29, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Starting in 2005, American readers of the Israeli daily Haaretz noticed something new in its pages: well-informed, jaunty analyses not only of American politics and diplomacy but of American Jews and American Judaism. The paper's correspondent was clearly a native-born Israeli, but, in decidedly un-Israeli fashion, he not only was genuinely interested in understanding American Jewry from within but regularly had insightful things to say about it.
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the direct effect of the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, it's another step toward the death of any real Israeli-Palestinian peace process.