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Her Secret
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Isabel Schwab | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new biography of Coco Chanel distinguishes itself by tackling the thorny subject of the designer's activities during World War II.
Rosh Hashanah with the Chief Rabbi Rosh Hashanah with the Chief Rabbi
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Ten years ago, the first day of Rosh Hashanah—the two-day Jewish New Year—fell on September 18. That was one week after September 11, 2001, when almost 3,000 people were killed by Muslim terrorists. On that Rosh Hashanah, rabbis did not lack for sermon topics.
Jordan on Palestine
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by L. Barkan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Jordan's official expressions of support for Palestinian statehood can't conceal the cooling of relations between the two sides.
Suffer the Little Children
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Rachel Burstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Are Jewish day school graduates preoccupied with historical persecution?
Jerusalem Syndrome
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The world's diplomats have convinced themselves that dividing the city of Jerusalem is the key to peace in the Middle East; they are deluded.
Cairo’s Peace Dividend
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An honest public debate would show that the peace with Israel has been beneficial to Egypt, and in fact an essential first step toward freedom from despotic rule.  
“Frum” Week
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Emily Langowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For seven days, a Yale senior raised in the Reform movement alters her dress, her habits, and her ritual behavior to try out "a different way of connecting to God."
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot!
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As his letters to colleagues and friends reveal, the anti-Semitic impulses of the great poet were deep, but varied in intensity and consistency according to circumstances.
Second Exile
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Lucette Lagnado | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt had no room for Jews. Longing for change, and even for return, the daughter of a family who fled in 1963 sees her hopes dashed.
Settling for Statehood Settling for Statehood
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly has just begun.  Unless a diplomatic miracle happens, that body will soon be asked to approve what amounts to a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.  Palestinian spokesmen say they had no choice but to make their end run around serious negotiations with Israel.