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New European OrderTuesday, October 19, 2010 by Matthew Kaminski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder places the Holocaust in the context of the wider European war, in the process giving a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.Border Crossings
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Charles Lewis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Canada imports most of its rabbis from the U.S., but they have to adjust to the more traditionalist Judaism practiced north of the border.Will It Play in Boro Park?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Daniel Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What not to do when courting the Orthodox Jewish vote.Another Japanese Schindler?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newly discovered photos in the diary of a World War II Japanese tourism official are thought to be of Jews he helped to escape from Nazi Europe.J Street’s Problem
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Standing in the lobby's way are not its questionable donors, or the pro-Israel convictions of American Jews, but the long-settled values and sentiments of the American people.Cleaning Strauss’s House
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Susanne Klingenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was Maimonides a Jew? According to the unpublished private correspondence of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, no.A City without a Memory
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Erich Follath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Budapest is experiencing a revival of anti-Semitic agitation, causing many of its Jews to leave.
Good Girl Gone Bad
Fifty-five years ago, a star was born: plucky, lucky Marjorie Morningstar, the "American Everygirl who happens to be Jewish." At least, that's how Time described her. Today, depending on whom you ask, Herman Wouk's 1955 novel, Marjorie Morningstar, is either the story of the romantic awakening of a blue-eyed Jewish beauty or a cautionary tale about what happens when you stray too far from your origins.
A Bad BillMonday, October 18, 2010 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Fifty-five years ago, a star was born: plucky, lucky Marjorie Morningstar, the "American Everygirl who happens to be Jewish." At least, that's how Time described her. Today, depending on whom you ask, Herman Wouk's 1955 novel, Marjorie Morningstar, is either the story of the romantic awakening of a blue-eyed Jewish beauty or a cautionary tale about what happens when you stray too far from your origins.
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Dan Izenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To the distinguished legal authority Ruth Gavison, there is nothing wrong with requiring an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, but the form and context of proposed legislation to that effect leave much to be desired.A Writer’s Duty
Monday, October 18, 2010 by Ken Kalfus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new collection in English of fiction and journalism by Vasily Grossman, whose great masterpiece Life and Fate was suppressed by Moscow, excavates vital artifacts of Soviet Jewish experience.