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Mourning Lech KaczynskiFriday, April 16, 2010 by Konstanty Gebert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Poland's Jewish remnant responded to his outspoken sympathy not only with Israel but with them and their history—and to his brand of Polish pride.Thanking Heaven for the Jewish State
Friday, April 16, 2010 by Michael Pitkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over the decades, a variety of liturgical responses have been composed in celebration of Israel's Independence Day (includes Hebrew content).
Sir Moses MontefioreFriday, April 16, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The name alone conjures up story-book images of a horse-drawn carriage from which a pious Victorian benefactor alights to bribe a local official, endow an orphanage, or dedicate a windmill. Abigail Green's brilliant new biography—elegantly conceived, exhaustively researched, crisply written—presents a far more complicated and fascinating picture. Montefiore was born in 1784 to a family embedded in the cosmopolitan network of merchant Jews linking London, Livorno, Amsterdam, and the New World: a Sephardi diaspora well-placed for the opportunities presented by the liberalizations of 19th-century Europe. Montefiore made deft use of the new dispensation, at first to make his fortune through his...
Friday, April 16, 2010 by Walter Mayr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A wanted Nazi war criminal responsible for the mass executions of Estonian Jews lived and worked in Germany for a half-century before dying in a retirement home two weeks ago.Miles to Go Before He Slept
Friday, April 16, 2010 by Yuval Elbashan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an amazing chain of events, the bones of a once-famous rabbi and Zionist have been removed from a cardboard box in Paris and re-interred in Israel 125 years after his death.Tax Day
Thursday, April 15, 2010 by Eli Clark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Jewish law, evading or cheating on one's taxes constitutes a grievous sin.Meet the Reform Rabbi
Thursday, April 15, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Orthodox blogger gives a platform to a Reform friend to introduce himself and his beliefs. (Part 2, includes link to Part 1.)The Internal Palestinian Debate
Thursday, April 15, 2010 by Max Singer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Peace will become possible only when those ready to renounce the effort to destroy Israel prevail over those holding out for total victory.Israel’s Joan of Arc
Thursday, April 15, 2010 by Don Aucoin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The documentary film Blessed Is the Match movingly recreates the life and death of the Zionist heroine Hannah Senesh.The Kahanes
Thursday, April 15, 2010 by Jonathan Mark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Remembering an extremist firebrand, his retiring son, and their murderers.
