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The Vatican vs. the “Zionist Tsunami”
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Slander of Israel is growing among important Catholic journalists and in the precincts of the Vatican Secretariat of State; the Pope should reverse the wave.
Follow the Money Follow the Money
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked—shocked—to discover that Muammar Qaddafi is a very bad man. So the once venerable institution is diverting some of the $2.5 million pledged through Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam into a scholarship fund for Libyan students.
The Unremembered
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Shelomo Alfassa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Bulgaria boasts of being the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population. The reality is far more compromising.
Hamas: Wait and See
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Mark A. Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hamas's ambivalence toward the uprising in Egypt indicates a lack of confidence in its ability to forestall or contain similar developments in Gaza.
No Way Back
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by William Shawcross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An epic new work recounts the story of the millions, including survivors of the Holocaust, displaced by the horrors of the German war machine, and of the men and women who labored heroically to succor them.
Neutron Stars & Matzah Balls
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Miriam Coleman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Is there something Jewish about astronomy? On the "amiable collision" of science and religion as viewed from a childhood in Pasadena, California.
The King of Israel
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Melissa Rohlin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Drafted by the Sacramento Kings, Omri Casspi has become a culture hero in the NBA—and a one-man advertisement for his home country.
Bible Blue
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Dina Kraft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Is a 2,000-year-old patch of dyed fabric the first known physical sample of tekhelet, the color used in ancient Jewish ritual garments?
J Street’s Last Hurrah? J Street’s Last Hurrah?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In a little over three years, a liberal lobby calling itself "passionately and unapologetically pro-Israel" appears to have either supplanted or co-opted other likeminded groups on the Jewish Left—among them, Americans for Peace Now, the Israel Policy Forum, and the New Israel Fund.
Jews in the USSR
Monday, February 28, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Exclusive photos from the 1920s and 30s out of the archives of the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work (ORT).