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Party of FraudThursday, July 28, 2011 by Matthew Levitt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is it not time to expose Hizballah for what it is—no standard-bearer of "resistance" in Lebanon but a worldwide criminal gang—and to prosecute it as such?Crying Fascism
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli democracy is weighed down by the attitudes of some Russian immigrants to freedom of expression; but warnings of creeping fascism are misplaced, and never more so than today.Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fixated on Soviet crimes against it, Vilnius is shirking its responsibility to acknowledge the scale of the Nazi genocide on its soil—carried out with the complicity and assistance of Lithuanians.The New-New Kosher
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Devra Ferst | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The revolution in kosher gourmet cuisine has been largely propelled by chefs recently recruited or returning to religious observance.What a Country!
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Noah Efron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After twenty-six years in Israel, one immigrant is blisteringly denounced before the Tel Aviv city council, and asks: "How did I ever get here?"
No Room in Zion?Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Tent camps are appearing across Israel in protest over the high cost of housing. The high cost of everything in Israel (recall the cottage cheese boycott earlier this year) has led to widespread economic and social dissatisfaction, with otherwise serious commentators making overheated analogies to Tahrir Square and the Arab Spring.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by David Breakstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What the new communal emphasis on Jewish peoplehood misses: yes, Jews are a people—but only by virtue of their connectedness to the Jewish faith and to the land of Israel.
Minorities in the IDFWednesday, July 27, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Recently, while driving by the Israeli settlement of Nokdim (where Avigdor Lieberman lives), I picked up a hitchhiking soldier. We started chatting, and I asked the soldier his name. "Mustafa," he said. "You're a Muslim?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, "from Haifa."
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Ariel Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Only now that Israel has identified substantial underwater gas reserves is Hizballah making an issue of maritime borders. Is it, perchance, spoiling for a fight?Six Myths about Anders Behring Breivik
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Daniel Greenfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Norwegian murderer's own words make clear what he was not—for example, neither a fundamentalist Christian nor pro-Israel—as well as what he was.
