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Another Nail in the CoffinFriday, April 29, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the direct effect of the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, it's another step toward the death of any real Israeli-Palestinian peace process.A Rabbi Cartel?
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Allison Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do denominational restrictions on the hiring of American Jewish clergy not only deprive local congregations of their autonomy but create an illegal monopoly?Crossing All Lines
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli radicals who went to comfort the families of the Fogels' murderers and to slander the IDF violated every norm of human decency.Apologetics and Aesthetics
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Howard Jacobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Improving on Holocaust denial, a British television series has depicted the Holocaust in all its horrorThere’s a Key in My Challah
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Jeffrey Saks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the origin of the post-Passover tradition known as "shliss challah."
Do Israeli and American Jews Need Each Other?Friday, April 29, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Starting in 2005, American readers of the Israeli daily Haaretz noticed something new in its pages: well-informed, jaunty analyses not only of American politics and diplomacy but of American Jews and American Judaism. The paper's correspondent was clearly a native-born Israeli, but, in decidedly un-Israeli fashion, he not only was genuinely interested in understanding American Jewry from within but regularly had insightful things to say about it.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Michael Berenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is the great untold story of the Holocaust that of the Jews who put their lives at even more acute risk to rescue other Jews?The Moralist
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Asa Kasher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The man who helps set the Israel Defense Force's ethical parameters explains what to do when one's opponents do not follow the rules of war. (Interview by David Horovitz)A Democratic Middle East?
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A look at the economic and geographic history of the region suggests why, with the single exception of Israel, its political evolution has stalled.Jewish Jeffersoniana
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Judith Fein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the third owner of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation, the colorful and controversial Uriah P. Levy may have founded America's historic-preservation movement.
