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When MI6 Blew Up Refugee ShipsTuesday, September 21, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book reveals how Great Britain used explosives to try to stop ships carrying Holocaust survivors to the Holy Land.The Man Who Sneaked into Auschwitz
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seventy years ago, a Polish army captain voluntarily entered Auschwitz in order to discover the truth about the camp. (With audio.)The Master of Species
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Jerusalem, an expert in both halakhah and botany pronounces judgment on purchases of the plants involved in the observance of Sukkot.Ode to Cholent
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine sings of the "food of heaven."
Be JoyfulTuesday, September 21, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Alongside the more colorful and distinctive rituals of the Sukkot festival—the taking-up of lulav and etrog, the sukkah itself—there is another command, less concrete and more penetrating: "And you will rejoice." Indeed, the passage in Deuteronomy (16: 14-15) concludes, v'hayita akh sameah, translatable as "you will be altogether joyful," or even "you will be only joyful."
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Noah Kosharek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recently discovered letter sheds new light on Jaffa's 1921 anti-Jewish pogroms.Yom Kippur at Sea
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year.J Street Blues
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Adam Kredo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is an organization supposedly focused on Israel taking stances on abortion and other issues in American domestic politics?
Hamas LoomingMonday, September 20, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas figure, was being ever so slightly disingenuous when he told the BBC that his movement would not attempt to halt the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu because in any case they are bound to die a natural death on their own.
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Efraim Inbar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is not nearly so diplomatically isolated as its critics, from within and without, would have us believe. (PDF)
