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A Chosen People? A Chosen People?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Within months of Israel's lightning victory in the June 1967 war, French President Charles de Gaulle was asked for his judgment of the dramatically new situation created by the triumph of the Jewish state over its enemies. Still smarting from Israel's refusal to heed his advice and wait passively for the Arab armies to attack, de Gaulle labeled the Jews "an elite people, sure of themselves and domineering."
Making a Hash of the Haggadah
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by Michael Medved | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The impulse to revise and update the prescribed Passover service remains unquenchable, yielding results that range from the odd to the preposterous.
Iron Dome’s Partial Answer
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The missile-defense system is another example of how Israel has turned the liability of terrorist threats into an opportunity for technological innovation.
Telling Jewish Time Telling Jewish Time
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The most acclaimed Jewish Bible commentary opens with a question. Why, asks Rashi (1040–1105), does the Torah begin with the account of creation, when it should properly have begun with God's revelation of His very first law to Moses on the eve of the Exodus from Egypt: "This month shall be for you the first of months"?
Why I am Returning
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Eran Davidi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Israeli who has been living in New York is giving up the comforts of America and going home to be "part of something big; bigger than you, and sometimes bigger than logic."
Eichmann’s Victims
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Franklin Foer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By providing the first opportunity to hear from Holocaust survivors at length, the trial of Adolf Eichmann shook the world.
The Colors of Israel
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Jori Finkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a series of portraits, an African-American painter explores Israel's "immense diversity."
Warsaw’s War, Too
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Laurence Weinbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even as Polish scholars unflinchingly document the scope of local complicity in the destruction of Polish Jewry, their government denies all responsibility.
Missing the Story
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Nick Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Journalists in the Middle East exploited Israel's free press to cozy up to Arab dictators and censure the Jewish state—until the revolutions began, when it became clear they had missed the real story.
A Free Man in an Unfree Society
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Ari Shavit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The April 4 assassination by Palestinians of a half-Jewish, half-Palestinian peace activist shamefully fails to register on the Left's emotional and ideological fever chart.