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Political Contrail Political Contrail
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

This month marks the 30th anniversary of an emotionally fraught and bitterly waged political confrontation between the Reagan administration and the organized Jewish community.
Vandalism and Evenhandedness
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Compared to the outcry against the tiny minority of Israelis engaging in violence against Arabs, the fact that Arab violence against Jewish targets is not considered worthy of much indignation is of great concern.
MausTrap
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Ruth Franklin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Art Spiegelman's "survivor's tale" is a painstakingly-researched work, rooted in his father's memories of life in Hitler's Europe and in the death camps.  So why did it top the fiction charts?    
Muslims and Jews in America Muslims and Jews in America
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Consider these two questions: During the past ten years, approximately 170 American Muslims have been arrested for plotting terror attacks against Jews or materially aiding other terrorists.
Born Again
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Kasim Hafeez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

There is pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on British campuses; just ask a British student, raised to venerate Hitler as a hero, who has now become a Zionist.
Who am I?
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Saul Bellow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a 1988 talk, Saul Bellow ponders in what order he is a writer, an American, and a Jew—and why.
The Failure of the Arab Spring
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Martin Peretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

This year's uprisings have not brought and for the foreseeable future are unlikely to bring democracy to the Arab world.
Small Victory
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By ostentatiously listing himself as "without religion," the novelist Yoram Kaniuk has confirmed the failure of secular Israelis to provide an alternative vision of Judaism.
Her Price is Far Above . . . .
Monday, October 10, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The King James Version puts the price of a virtuous woman above "rubies"; others say "pearls" or "corals." Who is right?
Let Us Now Praise Muslim Feminists
Friday, October 7, 2011 by Phyllis Chesler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

One Jewish woman celebrates the 19th- and early-20th-century Muslims who emerged from sex slavery to fight for universal human rights.
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