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The Conscience of a French JewTuesday, June 14, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The life's work of the great historian Pierre Nora, keeper of France's "realms of memory," has been powerfully motivated by his sense of Jewish identity.
Love, True Love, and StatisticsTuesday, June 14, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The depth of sympathy for the Jewish state among ordinary Americans ought to be cause for positive amazement. In stark contrast to strikingly negative European attitudes, a far-reaching CNN poll released on May 31 presents an uplifting picture of American public opinion toward Israel.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Gabriel Schoenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a new book, the history of Israeli counterterrorism is a case study in tactical excellence consistently undermined by strategic failure. Really?
Anti-Semitism and Man at YaleMonday, June 13, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The modern university is no longer made up simply of departments and regular professors teaching students. Ancillary centers, programs, and initiatives proliferate, undertaking research on every conceivable topic. The fates of such entities rarely make the New York Post. But anti-Semitism is not a normal subject.
Monday, June 13, 2011 by Burak Bekdil | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is the Turkish conquest of Istanbul good, but Israel's repatriation of Jerusalem in a war of self-defense bad? Part II of a two-part series; part I is here.The Lost Dream of Spring
Monday, June 13, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Toppling regimes like Mubarak's in Egypt and Ben Ali's in Tunisia has shown the problem is not merely the regimes; it is the character of the societies that give rise to them.The Partition Debate
Monday, June 13, 2011 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Conceding political control over part of the land of Israel is a decision that can be made only by Israelis—on the basis, and for the sake, of a common Zionist ideal.Inventing the Kollel
Monday, June 13, 2011 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Institutions funding full-time Torah study, a staple of ultra-Orthodoxy, are not a revival of European tradition; they are an innovation, and go against the normative Jewish approach.Sleeping with the Gestapo
Monday, June 13, 2011 by Dorothy Gallagher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The sexual adventures of a beautiful young American led her from the embrace of Nazis to the embrace of Soviet Communists; as for the Jews, she said to a friend, "We sort of don't like [them] anyway."In the Shadow of the Alhambra
Friday, June 10, 2011 by Raphael Minder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Against the backdrop of surveys showing 46 percent of Spaniards holding negative attitudes toward Jews, the city of Granada hosts a Jewish religious figure for the first time in over 500 years.
