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The Land of No Anti-SemitismTuesday, March 5, 2013 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Azerbaijan’s Jews, citizens of a pro-Israel nation with a venerable Jewish heritage, are sure that "there is no anti-Semitism here and there never has been." But they depend on the president's favor.Investigating the Shiksa
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by Menachem Kaiser | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Who is the shiksa? Where did she come from? How did she get to where she is today?" And "is calling someone a shiksa really a hate crime?"

Monday, March 4, 2013 by David B. Starr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
American Jewry is becoming less and less well informed about Zionism and Israel. Can anything be done to reverse this decline?
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Eric Lichtblau | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New research has revealed that the number of Nazi camps and ghettos was six times greater than previous estimates—too many to have remained invisible to the German people.Alliance of Caliphates
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Kofi Annan launched the United Nations’ “Alliance of Civilizations” with the aim of “bridging divides.” Now it provides an independently bankrolled forum for Islamist anti-Zionism.On a Mission to Save Kaifeng
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Anson Laynter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After centuries of decline, Kaifeng’s Jewish community has been rejuvenated by an American Christian philanthropist. Is he a benefactor—or a missionary?FDR and the Jews
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Marc Fisher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Roosevelt sounded at times like a Zionist, at times like a skeptic about Palestine’s capacity to absorb new settlers, and at times, when speaking to anti-Semites, like an anti-Semite himself.”Tower of Babble
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Judah Bellin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent book on Jewish social justice claims to apply “Jewish values and law” to “pressing contemporary moral issues.” But does it reduce the Torah to a vehicle for a political agenda?