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The Return of the “Exodus”
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1947, the New York Times editorialized against Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade of Palestine; today it editorializes against Israel's "attack" on the blockade-running "aid flotilla."
Remembering the Farhud Pogrom
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by Karam Mnashe and Charles Recknagel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In June 1941, murderous Baghdad mobs assaulted the city's Jews in a precursor to the purging of an ancient community.
The Flotilla: Israel Was Right
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Leslie H. Gelb | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel has every legal right to stop and board ships bound for the Gaza war zone.
The Flotilla Narrative
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Will revelations about the intentions of those aboard the Mavi Marmara make it into the British media?
Carrying Hamas’s Water
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by J.E. Dyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It will now be up to the United States and Europe whether the Gaza coast, just miles from the Suez Canal, becomes a source of international instability.
In Support of Israel
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A grass-roots initiative is circulating on the Internet.
Qumran in Paris
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by Jorg von Uthmann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the first show of its kind in France, the Bibliothèque Nationale displays fragments and facsimiles of the Dead Sea Scrolls and re-opens the question of their origins.
Russia and Israel Russia and Israel
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Nineteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist empire, Russia has reconstituted its role as a significant player in the Middle East and Islamic world. What does it want? Mainly, influence, stability, and the opportunity to make a great deal of money selling weapons. While not driven by ideology, as in the cold war, these goals are mostly out of sync with Israel's.
“Herr Professor-Doktor” Nikolaus Pevsner
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The author of a monumental, multi-volume survey of British architecture was born a Jew, converted to Christianity, and in the early 1930's sympathized with aspects of Nazism.
Lifeline
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On display in Jerusalem are the young Avigdor Arikha's illustrations to a story by S.Y. Agnon in one the most beautiful Hebrew books ever published.
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