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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a now somewhat notorious story published on January 11, Time magazine announced that Israeli politics was taking an ominous "rightward lurch," and concluded that the Middle East's only democracy is on the slippery slope toward something like . . . fascism.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Lebanon, the West stumbles along the precipice of a slow-motion defeat, whose tremors will be felt in the Israel-Arab dispute and across the region.“Blessed is the Match”
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Elissa Strauss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Through her personal artifacts, diary, and poetry, a New York exhibit tells the story of the Zionist heroine Hannah Senesh, caught in Hungary and executed by the Nazis at the age of twenty-three.Behind the Man
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Elad Benari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sonia Peres, Israel's late first lady, wasn't politically involved, or so goes the usual story; the real story is much more interesting.Rhapsody in Blue
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 by Jonathan Wilson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Chagall's newly restored America Windows, completed in 1977, have a thoroughly American story; they also reprise the work he did in 1920 for the Moscow Yiddish Theatre.Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
Monday, January 24, 2011 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If the debate over foreign funding of Israeli NGOs clarifies anything, it is that human-rights groups proliferate in societies that need them the least.On the Hill
Monday, January 24, 2011 by David G. Dalin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Through biographical sketches of the Jews serving in the Senate or Congress over the past 170 years, a new book provides more than its share of little-known and surprising facts.Family Reunion
Monday, January 24, 2011 by Toby Tabachnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi descended from a family of forced converts believes that many Italian-Americans have Jewish ancestry, which she is

Monday, January 24, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
To whom do antiquities belong? For Jews, the question took on flesh in 2003 in the flooded basement of a building belonging to the Iraqi secret police.
Monday, January 24, 2011 by Amiel Unger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the face of a sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence across western Europe, how much longer will concern over the impact of Muslim immigration be swept under the politically correct carpet?