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Israel, Where’s Your Instagram?Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Matt Marshall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli entrepreneurs are hitting base hits all year long but they can't seem to get into the World Series.A Fatwa against Nuclear Arms?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Tariq Alhomayed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After three decades of Iran's using religion, sectarianism, and even the Palestinian cause for its own ends, are we really expected to trust Tehran on the basis of . . . a religious fatwa?What is “Glatt”?
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Technically, "glatt kosher" refers to an animal whose lungs have no adhesions. Idiomatically, it means "very kosher." And what does it mean to the major kashrut supervision agencies?Statistics and Moral Sense
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Sohrab Ahmari and Justin D. Martin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did Israel, with its famously rowdy press and print culture, wind up second in a ranking of countries that jail the most journalists per capita? An exchange.New York’s Lost Temple
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Tom Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1865, German Jews built the largest synagogue in the United States, capable of holding 2,000 worshipers, with a breathtaking interior space rising to the equivalent of five stories. What happened to it?A Portal to Hades
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Ran Shapira | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New explorations of the Twins Cave in the Judean Hills have unearthed evidence of pagan rituals suggesting that the cave was thought to be an outlet to the underworld.Spinning the Polls
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Mitchell Bard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Don't believe the recent surveys. Does anyone think that Obama and his rivals would spend so much time talking about Israel if they did not believe it was an issue that shaped Jews' votes?The Titanic‘s Kosher Meal
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Marshall Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The availability of kosher food on the Titanic sheds light on England's role as a transit point for Eastern European Jews on the way to America.Altarcation
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Dror Eydar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Adam Zertal's sensational discovery of "Joshua's altar" should have created a paradigm shift in archeology—that is, if anyone had believed him.Couched Wisdom
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Tom Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews are more likely to seek out therapy and believe in its efficacy than are other Americans.

