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Remembering Too Well?Friday, April 20, 2012 by Joshua Hammerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The importance of fostering a Jewish identity that values "God of Sinai" over "God of Auschwitz."Genetic Threads
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Josh Fischman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of Jewish origins, once the province of historians and scholars of religion, is now being told by DNA—and it decisively refutes the counter-narratives promulgated by Shlomo Sand.Haredim in the Holocaust
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Meir Wikler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Yad Vashem downplays the experiences of the religious in the Shoah, Haredim have authored their own books and are building their own museums to teach their children and to memorialize the slain.Chasing Death
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To some people, the thought of death is melancholy and enervating; to others, it is a provocation to seize the day. Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, definitely falls into the second category.

Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Chaya Glasner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Even before visitors walk through the door of Yad Vashem, they see a powerful tribute to Holocaust heroism. Along the Avenue of the Righteous leading to the museum, thousands of trees bloom in honor of the approximately 21,000 "Righteous Among the Nations," courageous Gentiles who defied the Nazis and risked their lives to save Jews from deportation.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Yair Sheleg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is not only the Israeli Right that was traumatized by the Holocaust and thus views the world with apprehension. The Israeli peace camp also has a distorted view of the world due to that very same trauma.Calibrating Darkness
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Henry Tylbor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Warsaw Ghetto, a youngster watches, hears, and mentally records the sights, sounds, and sensations of encroaching murder.Hitler and Pharaoh
Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Jeff Jacoby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The nexus of Passover and Yom Hashoah teaches a single lesson—that persecution of Jews was preceded by the persecutors' sense of victimhood.A Fatwa against Nuclear Arms?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Tariq Alhomayed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After three decades of Iran's using religion, sectarianism, and even the Palestinian cause for its own ends, are we really expected to trust Tehran on the basis of . . . a religious fatwa?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Philip Getz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One hundred years ago today, the RMS Carpathia pulled into New York's Pier 54 carrying 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster. Most of the survivors were women and children from first class. But Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest and possibly one of the oldest women on board, was not among them.