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An Exemplary GermanMonday, December 7, 2009 by Gina Thomas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography of Adam von Trott, executed for his part in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler, rescues the integrity of a bold voice at a miserable time.Yeshiva Students in Khaki
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As more Haredi students serve in the Israel Defense Forces, the monolithic isolation of the ultra-Orthodox world shows early signs of cracking.When and How Did Israel Become a People?
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Avraham Faust | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Religion aside, the archaeological evidence points to a date in the 13th century B.C.E.What’s Left of Jewish Mother Russia
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Masha Gessen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the 75th anniversary of its establishment by the Soviet regime, the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan is a barren monument to the conjunction of misplaced idealism with brute power politics.Four Seasons Lodge
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Andrew Jacobs, and director | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent movie (watch trailer) offers an extraordinary look at an American community of Holocaust survivors, gathering for the last time.What Illegal Settlements?
Friday, December 4, 2009 by David Phillips | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish neighborhoods, towns, and cities in the West Bank may be controversial, but they do not transgress international law.Spinoza v. Maimonides
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Steven Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book by Rabbi Marc Angel attempts to resuscitate the idea of rational Judaism, and partly succeeds.Can We Blame Them?
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Tawfik Hamid | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Defending the Swiss ban on minarets, and answering the cries of outrage in the Muslim world.
Asymmetric LawfareFriday, December 4, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Goldstone Report on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war, endorsed by the UN General Assembly on November 5, has taken on a life of its own in the court of world public opinion. Increasingly, both its enthusiasts and its detractors see it as a weapon, even more potent than the UN’s Zionism-Racism resolution of November 1975, in a campaign to render illegitimate the very existence of the state of Israel. So loud has the drumbeat over the Report become, and so widening its repercussions, that an entire website—cited in the first item below—is needed to collect the facts and to...
Thursday, December 3, 2009 by Andrew Jacobs, and director | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new movie (watch trailer) offers an extraordinary look at an American community of Holocaust survivors, gathering for the last time.
