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“We Love Death”Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 2007, two years before he killed thirteen people and wounded twenty-nine at Fort Hood, Texas, Nidal Malik Hasan prepared a slide show for his fellow Army doctors on the subject of Islam. One of his last points read: "We love death more than you love life!"
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Ralph Gardner Jr. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to Michael Tilson Thomas's rehearsal of a multimedia tribute to his grandparents, the Yiddish theater greats Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky.The Goldstone Mess
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by Peter Berkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Before Richard Goldstone's recent disavowals of his own Report, Desmond Tutu and others rallied to keep alive this fatally flawed document with the potential to endanger both civilians and lawful fighters. Mixed Welcome
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by Tamar Jacoby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Essential as immigration has been to American history, prevailing opinion through the centuries has been anything but warm toward newcomers.Fashions in Anti-Semitism
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by Norman Lebrecht | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The House of Dior has put its stamp on the return of anti-Semitic speech, and the equivocations of John Galliano's media apologists have further legitimized it.How Hoffman Came to Pray
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a novel set in the months before the disintegration of Communist Eastern Europe, the Dutch writer Leon de Winter unforgettably captures the predicament of the modern Jew.On the Trail of Eichmann
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by Klaus Wiegrefe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Documents unknown until now show that a chief architect of the Holocaust could have been captured earlier than he was.Bibi’s Choice
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the international scene, on the regional scene, and within Palestinian politics, Israel cannot be sure what it will soon face. It is time for a bold unilateral move.
Gandhi and the JewsTuesday, April 5, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A new book about Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) has set off stormy protests in India for implying that the country's founding father was bisexual. That's only the beginning of it.
Monday, April 4, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is hard to think of a blood libel in recent years as bald as Richard Goldstone's UN report alleging that Israel committed war crimes. His present "reconsideration" sees him almost wheedling for forgiveness.