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Loving and Leaving EuropeFriday, July 30, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
According to a recent report in the European press, dozens of French Jews who, in the aftermath of World War II, were compelled to adopt Gallic-sounding names are now demanding to be allowed to revert to their Jewish originals. There is a deep irony here: the supposedly Jewish names being reclaimed are in fact the artificial and often arbitrary ones originally imposed in 1787 by the Austrian emperor, Joseph II, as part of his larger aim of integrating the Jews of Central Europe into Germanic society and culture.
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Andrea Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will the paper's new public editor address the mountain of complaints about its distorted coverage of Israel and the Middle East?Uncovering Shiloh
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Gil Ronen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The city that was ancient Israel's capital for 400 years is the object of ongoing excavations.
Mainline Protestants and IsraelThursday, July 29, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
So enamored are today's mainline Protestant churches with the Palestinian Arab "narrative" that they seem to have altogether forgotten, or denied, their own prior history of support for Israel and Zionism. Indeed, some of them appear to be trying to derail the Zionist enterprise altogether.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The revisionist narrative of 1948 makes pawns out of Palestinian lives.Man Is a Stinker
Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the fatalist art of I. J. Singer.Say Uncle
Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Sohrab Ahmari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iranians are permeated by a virulent ideology of which anti-Semitism is today the most disturbing manifestation.Teaching Talmud in Moscow
Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Judith Hauptman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does the fact that the government permits the practice of religion mean that Jewish life in Russia has a future?Allegra Vivante
Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Heller McAlpin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman's fourth novel, is an ambitious social comedy exploring how one should act in a bewildering world.Art Restoration
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Thomas R. Kline | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A famous modernist painting looted by the Nazis, sold by an Austrian collector, and lent to New York's Museum of Modern Art has at last been returned to public exhibition with compensation to the estate of its original Jewish owners.
