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The American SchindlerThursday, August 19, 2010 by Fiona Govan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Varian Fry rescued 4,000 European Jews, among them many prominent artists and intellectuals, from the Nazis; only now is the extent of his work coming to light.
Getting Abbas to the TableThursday, August 19, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The barrier built a decade ago to protect the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo from Fatah fire is being dismantled. Some residents are worried: today's tranquility is welcome, said one, but why tempt fate when there is still no peace agreement with the Palestinians, and not even direct negotiations?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 1949 armistice lines were not a recognized international boundary, and they only invited Arab aggression; renaming them the "1967 borders" will not change history or bring peace.We Do Not Need or Want This Mosque
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Abd al-Rahman al-Rashed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The planned mosque at Ground Zero is bound to become "an arena for the promoters of hatred and a monument to those who committed the crime" of 9/11—and most Muslims are against it.How Bad Was Jezebel?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Janet Howe Gaines | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every biblical word condemns her, but is there not something—much—to admire in this ancient queen?The Conversion of David Mamet
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Terry Teachout | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To explain the political evolution of America's most famous playwright from a Left-liberal to a conservative, one might begin with his earlier writings about Israel and Judaism.
Psalms for the PerplexedWednesday, August 18, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some mainstream Israeli musicians have recently been turning for material to religious texts; others have become immersed in the musical traditions of Sephardi Jewry. The two trends have come together in a new album, Mizmorei Nevukhim ("Psalms for the Perplexed"), by Kobi Oz.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Gary Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.Am I Helping the Boycotters?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jonathan Cristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even hostile articles about the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement are claimed as victories by the anti-Israel campaign; so why am I writing this one?Of Dhimmitude and History
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two new and very different accounts of Muslim attitudes toward Jews are problematic, each in its own way, on the subject of anti-Semitism.
