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The Blue & the GrayThursday, March 3, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Civil War was a key episode in the evolving relationship between the Jews and America; why are today's Jews positively uninterested in exploring it?A Fierce Legacy
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rather than being imported into the Middle East as a byproduct of modern European imperialism, violence and oppression was long an integral part of Islamic political culture.The Vatican vs. the “Zionist Tsunami”
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Slander of Israel is growing among important Catholic journalists and in the precincts of the Vatican Secretariat of State; the Pope should reverse the wave.
Follow the MoneyWednesday, March 2, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked—shocked—to discover that Muammar Qaddafi is a very bad man. So the once venerable institution is diverting some of the $2.5 million pledged through Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam into a scholarship fund for Libyan students.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Shelomo Alfassa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bulgaria boasts of being the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population. The reality is far more compromising.From the Rock
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Jim Lauria | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Masters at creating usable water, Israelis are also among the world's most ardent conservationists.Dirty Jokes and Wedding Jesters
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In July 1661, abusive and aggressive jokers, a fixture of Eastern European Jewish life, were exempted from a rabbinic ban on merrymaking—and modern Jewish humor was born.The King of Israel
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Melissa Rohlin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Drafted by the Sacramento Kings, Omri Casspi has become a culture hero in the NBA—and a one-man advertisement for his home country.Bible Blue
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Dina Kraft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is a 2,000-year-old patch of dyed fabric the first known physical sample of tekhelet, the color used in ancient Jewish ritual garments?
J Street’s Last Hurrah?Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a little over three years, a liberal lobby calling itself "passionately and unapologetically pro-Israel" appears to have either supplanted or co-opted other likeminded groups on the Jewish Left—among them, Americans for Peace Now, the Israel Policy Forum, and the New Israel Fund.
