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Growing Up Anglo-JewishTuesday, January 11, 2011 by John Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Remembering a wartime youth, by the former editor of the (London) Times Literary Supplement and the author of, among other books, Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-five. (2001)
Press Freedom, Israeli-StyleTuesday, January 11, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
If, as Walter Lippmann wrote, the newspaper is the bible of democracy, the land of the Bible is exceptionally well endowed with that precious commodity.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alongside the increase in religious aspirants to leadership roles in the IDF, efforts are being made to imbue future officers with old-fashioned secular-Zionist values.Match Game
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Harriet Sherwood | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Born into a secular South African family, drawn into Israel's ultra-Orthodox community, Heather Sirota is now a matchmaker with hundreds of successes to her name.The Death Marches
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the end of World War II, the spirit of genocide that Germans had brought with them to Eastern Europe returned to the German heartland itself.House of Books
Monday, January 10, 2011 by Sasha Abramsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A grandson remembers Chimen Abramsky: bookseller, scholar, antiquarian, host to the leading Jewish thinkers of postwar England.Hear Israel
Monday, January 10, 2011 by Ari Y. Kelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1951, in a phenomenon not heard before or since, a Hebrew song was at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.
Loving Jews, Hating JewsMonday, January 10, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In their new book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, the sociologists Robert Putnam and David Campbell advance the striking claim that "Jews are the most broadly popular religious group in America today."
Monday, January 10, 2011 by Ehud Yaari and Eyal Ofer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas has stayed in power by siphoning to its supporters the huge aid sums intended to sustain the general populace.Reforming Reform
Monday, January 10, 2011 by Evan Moffic | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What values do the leaders of Reform Judaism mean to highlight as the movement enters a new era?
