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Alliance of Caliphates
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Kofi Annan launched the United Nations’ “Alliance of Civilizations” with the aim of “bridging divides.”  Now it provides an independently bankrolled forum for Islamist anti-Zionism.
On a Mission to Save Kaifeng
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Anson Laynter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After centuries of decline, Kaifeng’s Jewish community has been rejuvenated by an American Christian philanthropist.  Is he a benefactor—or a missionary?
FDR and the Jews
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Marc Fisher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“Roosevelt sounded at times like a Zionist, at times like a skeptic about Palestine’s capacity to absorb new settlers, and at times, when speaking to anti-Semites, like an anti-Semite himself.”
Tower of Babble
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Judah Bellin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recent book on Jewish social justice claims to apply “Jewish values and law” to “pressing contemporary moral issues.”  But does it reduce the Torah to a vehicle for a political agenda?
Judaism and the Meaning of Life Judaism and the Meaning of Life
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Emil Fackenheim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Emil Fackenheim is often remembered only for his Holocaust theology.  This 1965 Commentary essay reminds us of his understanding of the covenantal relationship between God and man.
Dangerous Liaisons
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Meredith Tax | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Burgeoning alliances between the far Left and the theocratic Muslim Right represent "betrayals of basic socialist principle" that have "undermined struggles for secular democracy."
The Genesis of Genesis
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new book explains Genesis by isolating it from the rest of the Bible and later religious contexts.  But the fact that it can be read in isolation is no argument that it ought to be. 
Five-Star Refuge
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Erica Lyons | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Peninsula in Hong Kong remains one of the city's finest hotels.  In the aftermath of the Second World War, however, it was a shelter for 283 Jewish refugees. 
Collecting the Holocaust
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Adam Andrusier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Anyone like to buy Schindler’s list?  I don’t mean a DVD of the film: I mean Schindler’s list.  It’s available for $1.2 million on a U.S. website, apparently ‘the opportunity of a lifetime.’"
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