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Creating a MonsterMonday, February 6, 2012 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the weak-chinned, bespectacled, clumsy young man who ambitiously reinvented himself as . . . Heinrich Himmler.
The Dangerous Mr. NelsonMonday, February 6, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Eric Nelson is a danger to academia. You would not think so from his background. He is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has had a proper education, at Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One woman is a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist. The other is a renegade crusader for women's rights. An American journalist explicitly seeks to draw a parallel between the two.Creaming the Competition
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ruling Haagen Dazs ice cream to be non-kosher, the Israeli chief rabbinate misconstrues Moshe Feinstein's position and once again demonstrates its contempt for Diaspora Judaism.Vatican’t
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's decision to cede some sovereignty over the "Hall of the Last Supper" to the Catholic Church will only embolden the Vatican's campaign to appropriate Jewish Jerusalem.
The Pale GodFriday, February 3, 2012 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Imagine God not as a benign force infusing the universe with love and sustaining it with mercy, and not as a stern judge smiting sinners from on high with his cosmic zap-gun, but as a grandfatherly figure, kind but, truth be told, somewhat out of it, sitting in a corner, tolerant of the various paths his children have chosen.
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Zev Eleff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 18th-century scholar Aryeh Leib Ginsburg was a harsh critic of earlier halakhic authorities. Did they finally exact revenge on him? And, if so, who's been covering up the story?Independent is the New Democrat
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Ilana Ostrin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish affiliation with the Democratic Party has dropped by ten percent since 2009. This won't hurt President Obama—but may affect other electoral races in 2012.Reading the Netanyahu Tea Leaves
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Zvika Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does the collapse of recent Israeli-Palestinian exploratory talks mask an increased flexibility in the Prime Minister's position on Israeli control of the Jordan Valley? The Atlantic is hopeful.Auster and Erdogan on Human Rights in Turkey
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Dave Itzkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Turkish Prime Minister called the novelist ignorant for refusing to visit Turkey because of all those journalists in Turkish jails. Auster has delivered quite an answer.
