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Let Them be Soothed
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Carlo Strenger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an op-ed apparently not intended as a Purim spoof, a Tel Aviv psychologist proposes to heal the trauma of Palestinians and Israelis by allowing the former to vent their "rage and pain," the latter their "fear."
Far from Enough
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the work of self-examination, religious Zionists must go beyond issues of sexual abuse.
Nazism and Political Islam
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Jeffrey Herf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Arabic-language broadcasts during World War II presage the violently anti-Semitic Islamism of recent decades.
Unburying the Past
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Przemsyl, Poland, a centuries-old cemetery, most of its tombstones long plundered, has been returned to Jewish control.
The All-Inclusive Holiday
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Shai Held | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Purim's religious themes comprehend, one by one, the teachings of every other holiday of the Jewish year.
Memo to Dubai: Tell us More
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Police videos of the alleged assassins of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh are riveting, but where is Dubai's footage of the comings and goings of al-Mabhouh himself, not to mention other international terrorists?
Are Asian Americans the “New Jews”?
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Jeff Yang | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In some ways, yes; in other ways, more so than Jews themselves; in still other ways, not at all.
Jesus and the Chief Rabbi
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Sandro Magister | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As Pope Benedict finishes his own biography of Jesus, an earlier Italian book about the founder of Christianity has just been republished. Its author: a chief rabbi of Rome who in 1945 would notoriously convert to Roman Catholicism.
LollapaJooza in Long Beach
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Gordon Haber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Can we please stop hearing about how "cool" it is to be Jewish?
Agnon Agnon
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In 1966 a diminutive man, a large black kippah perched on his head, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His acceptance speech, delivered in the lilting cadences of his native Galicia, brimmed with allusions to holy texts, conjuring up an evanescent aura of piety and sacred longings.  Yet underneath that kippah, and vibrating in the spaces between the ancient Hebrew words, was one of the most cunning minds and radical pens in Jewish literary history. Born Shmuel Yosef Czazkes in the town of Buczcacz, S. Y. Agnon, who died 40 years ago today at the age of eighty-one, moved to...
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