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Larger than LifeMonday, October 25, 2010 by Amos Kollek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Teddy Kollek's son recalls childhood encounters with two of Israel's national heroes: the humorless, imposing David Ben-Gurion, and the blunt, courageous, womanizing Moshe Dayan.The Islamist
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An otherwise credible new book traces the intellectual development of Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of radical Islamism, while skating over his fanatical anti-Semitism.
Was Lenin Jewish?Monday, October 25, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Bolshevik Revolution undertook to change history. In line with that aim, its leaders set out to control the writing of history. The scholar Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who was born and studied in the Soviet Union, learned the hard way that history is shaped by how information is managed and made available. Confronting the challenge head-on, he has published a book, Lenin's Jewish Question, about the ancestry of the man who masterminded the 1917 Revolution and became the iron-fisted dictator of the early Soviet state.
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Robert D. Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The benign East Asian model of the religion is threatened by the extremist Saudis on one side, the materialistic Chinese on the other. We should be rooting for the Chinese.The Great Engagement Swindle
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Since the U.S. joined it last year, the UN Human Rights Council has praised the Sudanese for re-electing a president indicted for genocide, ignored atrocities in the Congo, and demonized Israel.Abraham’s Progeny?
Monday, October 25, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A stunning exhibit at the New York Public Library gathers rare works of the three "Abrahamic faiths," stressing similarities but ignoring historically momentous differences.Intellectuals in Flight
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A hit job in the New York Review of Books highlights the disgraceful abandonment of Israel by Western liberal intellectuals.Right Turn?
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The American Jewish vote remains strongly Democratic at the national level but is less so at the state level—which could make a difference in some of November's close-run races.
Guaranteed in AmericaFriday, October 22, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Why should the Netanyahu government place any faith in the incentives offered by President Barack Obama in return for an extension of the moratorium on settlement construction? So grumble some Israelis, pointing for added emphasis to Obama's refusal to honor an earlier, Bush-administration pledge to Ariel Sharon.
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If this year's memorial rally for the slain leader was sparsely attended, the reason is not public apathy but Israelis' weariness with the glorification of a peace agreement soaked in Jewish blood.