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Sacha Baron Cohen Never Forgets
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Steve Sailer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The comedian's four main characters have been parodies of present or past foes of the Jews. At this rate, he might even get around to making a movie mocking the Amalekites.
No Quarter
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For its two million tourists, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City is the historical and spiritual center of Judaism. But the only Jews who lived there before 1948 were those too poor to leave.
A Heretic in the Truth
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Zachary Micah Gartenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Spinoza takes Maimonides' characterization of miracles as divinely implanted—but still natural—anomalies in the regular course of things. Then Spinoza adds a twist.
E-vil?
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The ultra-Orthodox rally against the Internet is not merely about pornography. It's about Facebook, filters, accountability, and the maintenance of rabbinic authority. And then it is also about pornography.
Masonic Rites in the Holy Land
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Below Jerusalem's Old City, a Freemason "laid my pocket Bible atop the stone in the middle of the cave and three candles around it which shower light . . ."
Hezbollah’s Newest Threat
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The culture of resistance crafted by Hezbollah is on the wane, as many Shiites aren't eager to serve as human shields in the next round of warfare.
Haredinomics
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Uri Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By bringing in donations, Israel's ultra-Orthodox—whether they know it or not—are boosting the country's GDP.
The Spirit is Unwilling
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Mary Pilon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why won't the president of the International Olympic Committee allow for a moment of silence, in "the Olympic spirit," on the tragic anniversary of the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches?
Doctor Who?
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Roni Caryn Rabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite a sequence of papal edicts prohibiting Jewish doctors from treating Christians, almost every pope in history had a personal physician who was Jewish.
The Nakba that Almost Was
Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Robert Werdine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What would have happened to the Jewish towns of nascent Israel were the invading Arab armies successful?