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The Eichmann File RevisitedTuesday, May 10, 2011 by Michael Kimmelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
West Germany in the postwar years knew more about the fugitive high-ranking Nazi than it let on, or than the German government wants to let on today. But a truer picture is beginning to emerge.Kushner’s Comrades
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 by Ron Radosh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A vote not to award an honorary degree to the anti-Israel playwright sparked a vitriolic outpouring against the trustees of New York's City University; guess who won.Is Jerusalem in Israel?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The U.S. Congress thinks one way, the executive branch another; the Supreme Court may get to decide.New, Tenuous Lease on Life
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israelis are celebrating their country's 63rd birthday in the knowledge that in 50 years it might continue to be a thriving democracy—or it could no longer exist. Still-Unknown Soldiers
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As Israel marks its Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron), some of the fallen in its War of Independence have yet to be identified. Majorca’s Dark Legacy
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Doreen Carvajal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Belatedly, a memorial honors the Jewish victims of the Inquisition on the Spanish Mediterranean island where anti-Semitism outlasted those it vanquished.Eretz Poland
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Gerben Zaagsma | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A fascinating new study explores Jewish migration from the East European "homeland" of Bialystok to New York, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and Melbourne.A Chief Rebbetzin?
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Sally Berkovic | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Orthodox women in Britain need their own leader to represent the interests of 51 percent of the community.Hebraic Nation
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Stephen Prothero | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Bible continues to be the main source for America's most popular names.
Crimes of CommunionMonday, May 9, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Two years ago, a Muslim reporter for the Malaysian magazine Al Islam attended a Catholic mass in Kuala Lumpur with a companion, surreptitiously took communion, and put the wafer in his mouth, only to spit it out later. The May 2009 issue of Al Islam featured a cover photograph of the soggy, partially-eaten wafer—to the horror of local church authorities.
