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Genetic ThreadsFriday, April 20, 2012 by Josh Fischman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of Jewish origins, once the province of historians and scholars of religion, is now being told by DNA—and it decisively refutes the counter-narratives promulgated by Shlomo Sand.
The Education of a “Wise Man”Friday, April 20, 2012 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Eddie Jacobson was once a folk hero among American Jews, and even today he is far from forgotten. In their authoritative book A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, Allis and Ronald Radosh tell how Truman's old business partner did his part to bring Israel into existence.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Meir Wikler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Yad Vashem downplays the experiences of the religious in the Shoah, Haredim have authored their own books and are building their own museums to teach their children and to memorialize the slain.Chasing Death
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To some people, the thought of death is melancholy and enervating; to others, it is a provocation to seize the day. Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, definitely falls into the second category.
Righteous Among Our NationThursday, April 19, 2012 by Chaya Glasner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Even before visitors walk through the door of Yad Vashem, they see a powerful tribute to Holocaust heroism. Along the Avenue of the Righteous leading to the museum, thousands of trees bloom in honor of the approximately 21,000 "Righteous Among the Nations," courageous Gentiles who defied the Nazis and risked their lives to save Jews from deportation.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Yair Sheleg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is not only the Israeli Right that was traumatized by the Holocaust and thus views the world with apprehension. The Israeli peace camp also has a distorted view of the world due to that very same trauma.Calibrating Darkness
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Henry Tylbor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Warsaw Ghetto, a youngster watches, hears, and mentally records the sights, sounds, and sensations of encroaching murder.Hitler and Pharaoh
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Jeff Jacoby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The nexus of Passover and Yom Hashoah teaches a single lesson—that persecution of Jews was preceded by the persecutors' sense of victimhood.P.O.R.K.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Leah Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Our children have suddenly become ultra-Orthodox. What do we do?" P.O.R.K. to the rescue!Face to Face
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Gavi Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One was a talmudist, the other an ontologist—yet the two figures' work reveals striking similarities. Either it was a case of plagiarism or an instance of cosmic significance.
