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Spies of the BalkansWednesday, June 16, 2010 by Sara Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Alan Furst's latest thriller, a detective from Salonika becomes one link in a chain of operatives shepherding Jews out of Germany. (Audio interview.)Who Killed Haim Arlozoroff?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new novel (in French) by the French-Egyptian-Jewish writer Tobie Nathan centers on the 1933 assassination in Tel Aviv of a Zionist political leader.The Divestment Scorecard
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Jon Haber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israel offers a global cause to rally around even as it has little to show for itself on the ground.Politics, Turkish-style
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Semih Idiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Evading tough issues at home, Prime Minister Erdogan rides a populist and Islamist wave with vitriolic anti-American and anti-Israel overtones.
World Zionist CongressTuesday, June 15, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 36th congress of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) opens in Jerusalem today, bringing together hundreds of delegates drawn from political parties in Israel's Knesset as well as from Zionist and Jewish organizations in the Diaspora. On the agenda are subjects ranging from the condition of Zionism in Israeli society and worldwide, to settlement in Judea and Samaria, to Israel-Diaspora relations. Unfortunately, no matter how stimulating the speeches may be, no one anticipates any fateful decisions or even any serious grappling with existential questions.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Judith Shulevitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Have editors and critics committed a posthumous literary injustice against the author of Call it Sleep and his unfinished, late-life stream of confessional narrative?Rebel with a Cello
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Ezra Glinter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Playing with classical orthodoxies, the work of the Israeli musician Maya Beiser is inspired by cross-cultural influences. (With video.)Iran’s Revolution Now
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Reuel Marc Gerecht | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Very little is needed to help the Green movement's efforts to topple a now permanently unstable regime; but will Washington provide it?
What Israel Ta-Shma SawMonday, June 14, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the 7,000 new titles featured in Israel's annual book festival last week was the fourth, final, and—sadly—posthumous volume of studies by Israel Ta-Shma (1936–2004), one of the great rabbinic scholars of modern times.
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Ted A. Smith and Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new report on Israel by the U.S. Presbyterian Church bears false witness against Jews and the Jewish state.
