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Was Lenin Jewish?Monday, October 25, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Bolshevik Revolution undertook to change history. In line with that aim, its leaders set out to control the writing of history. The scholar Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, who was born and studied in the Soviet Union, learned the hard way that history is shaped by how information is managed and made available. Confronting the challenge head-on, he has published a book, Lenin's Jewish Question, about the ancestry of the man who masterminded the 1917 Revolution and became the iron-fisted dictator of the early Soviet state.
Friday, October 22, 2010 by David Suissa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When there were still Jews in Arab lands, they would have jumped at the chance to pledge loyalty to a "Muslim and democratic state" in return for the same protections Arabs enjoy today in Israel.Sacrificial Images
Friday, October 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A gallery of Jewish art depicts the Binding of Isaac, an event related in this week's Scripture reading.Intellectuals in Flight
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A hit job in the New York Review of Books highlights the disgraceful abandonment of Israel by Western liberal intellectuals.Right Turn?
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The American Jewish vote remains strongly Democratic at the national level but is less so at the state level—which could make a difference in some of November's close-run races.
Guaranteed in AmericaFriday, October 22, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Why should the Netanyahu government place any faith in the incentives offered by President Barack Obama in return for an extension of the moratorium on settlement construction? So grumble some Israelis, pointing for added emphasis to Obama's refusal to honor an earlier, Bush-administration pledge to Ariel Sharon.
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If this year's memorial rally for the slain leader was sparsely attended, the reason is not public apathy but Israelis' weariness with the glorification of a peace agreement soaked in Jewish blood.Keep the Sabbath, or Keep the Doors Open?
Friday, October 22, 2010 by Michael Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Should Philadelphia's new National Museum of American Jewish History remain open on Saturdays? An only-in-America debate.Disgracing Andrei Sakharov
Thursday, October 21, 2010 by Robin Shepherd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In its zeal to demonize Israel, the European Parliament has befouled the memory of the great Soviet dissident by nominating an anti-Israel lobbying group for the prize bearing his name.Family Matters
Thursday, October 21, 2010 by Julia M. O’Brien | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Hebrew Bible portrays many models of family life, each arising from a distinctive economic situation.
