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Another Japanese Schindler?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Newly discovered photos in the diary of a World War II Japanese tourism official are thought to be of Jews he helped to escape from Nazi Europe.
No Friends but the Mountains
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Kurds and Jews share a similar history—and a common enemy.
Bi-Polar Europe Bi-Polar Europe
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Last month, Western intelligence services uncovered a plot by Arab men holding European citizenship to carry out simultaneous shooting strikes in France, Germany, and Britain.  The United States apparently thwarted the attacks in a targeted killing campaign using drone aircraft against suspected Taliban- and al-Qaeda-backed terrorists along the Pakistan-Afghan border.
New European Order
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Matthew Kaminski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder places the Holocaust in the context of the wider European war, in the process giving a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.
A Bad Bill
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Dan Izenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To the distinguished legal authority Ruth Gavison, there is nothing wrong with requiring an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, but the form and context of proposed legislation to that effect leave much to be desired.
A Writer’s Duty
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Ken Kalfus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new collection in English of fiction and journalism by Vasily Grossman, whose great masterpiece Life and Fate was suppressed by Moscow, excavates vital artifacts of Soviet Jewish experience.
J Street’s Problem
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Standing in the lobby's way are not its questionable donors, or the pro-Israel convictions of American Jews, but the long-settled values and sentiments of the American people.
Cleaning Strauss’s House
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Susanne Klingenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Was Maimonides a Jew? According to the unpublished private correspondence of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, no.
A City without a Memory
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Erich Follath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Budapest is experiencing a revival of anti-Semitic agitation, causing many of its Jews to leave.
Good Girl Gone Bad Good Girl Gone Bad
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Fifty-five years ago, a star was born: plucky, lucky Marjorie Morningstar, the "American Everygirl who happens to be Jewish." At least, that's how Time described her. Today, depending on whom you ask, Herman Wouk's 1955 novel, Marjorie Morningstar, is either the story of the romantic awakening of a blue-eyed Jewish beauty or a cautionary tale about what happens when you stray too far from your origins.
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