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Killing RathenauWednesday, June 20, 2012 by Carole Fink | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Walther Rathenau was neither a typical German Jew nor a traditional German statesman. Born into a wealthy industrialist family that had disowned its Jewish beliefs and practices and gaining political office late in life, Rathenau was the quintessential outsider.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Michael C. Moynihan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An admirer of Qaddafi and Mugabe and an old-school anti-Semite, Charles Barron is an unlikely choice for a New York congressman. But low turnout in the Democratic primary could make him just that.Anglo-Jewry: A Contradiction in Terms?
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Linda Grant | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Jews are, in the words of literary critic Leslie Fiedler, the natural voice of modern America, Jewish writers in Britain remain the voice of the permanent counter-culture.The Student of Sadism
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although many balked at her rejection of the notion of evil, Gitta Sereny's openness with the Nazi war criminals she interviewed led them to tell her things that they would never tell anyone else.Confessions of a Narcissist
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by David Rieff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Claude Lanzmann's memoir is a self-indulgent failure. But Shoah is a work of genius, and that does indeed justify a life. Korah: A Tribal Story
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Numbers always prefers one of the two Hebrew words for tribe — except in chapter 17, where it uses that word quite differently. We'll continue the exploration that we began during Parshat B'midbar. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:51
Brandeis and Zionism, In and Out of LoveTuesday, June 19, 2012 by Evan Moffic | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Supreme Court is once again poised to define the role of government in American society; and Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, would have recognized the terms of the debate.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Cynthia Ozick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who could have foretold an eruption of Hebrew-generative genius on the American continent—which, having no offspring, then came to nothing?The Munich Files
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Gunther Latsch and Klaus Wiegrefe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Files just released on the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics show that the terrorists received assistance from German neo-Nazis—who were let off virtually scot-free.“Rabbi, do we Jews believe in reincarnation?”
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Hyim Shafner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Knowing full well that much of Kabbalah, philosophy, and even Midrash does accept the notion of reincarnation, I tried to muster a definitive 'No!'"
