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Israel’s Indian Connection
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Marc Sloman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The highest-ranking Indian official in a decade is about to visit Israel. His trip is another step in India's 20-year journey out of Third World socialism.
Silent Majority
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Matthew Ackerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Everyone says young American Jews are increasingly hostile to Israel. But is it true? A new poll cautions us not to mistake a vocal minority for the majority.
Analyzing Ashkelon
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Sam Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Science is revolutionizing the study of ancient Ashkelon—revealing mysterious cylinders as parts of ancient looms, proving that what we thought were palaces may really have been stables.
Churchill and State
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Lital Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Nearly 50 years after Winston Churchill's death, Israelis have founded a society in the British wartime leader's name and GOP politicians are pledging to restore his bust to the Oval Office.
The Second Sex’s Third Blessing
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Aryeh A. Frimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A fifteenth-century prayer book replaces a problematic traditional blessing with a pro-woman variant.  So what?      
Lay That Pistol Down
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The world has never accepted Zionism's militarization of the Jew, and the creation of the psychologically transformative homo israelianus.
The Adoption Solution
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Shmuly Yanklowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From Moses to Mordechai to the midrashic dictum that "he who brings up a child is to be called its father," Jewish tradition is firmly pro-adoption.
Pork and Prejudice
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Shmarya Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As the smell of roasting pork is disconcertingly similar to the smell of burning human flesh, is the Jewish prohibition on eating pig rooted in the abhorrence of human sacrifice?
Shrine Online
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Sohrab Ahmari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Unable to restore a shrine with a prominent Star of David in Iran, a U.S. organization and an Iranian-American architect are reviving the site in cyberspace.
UN-occupied
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Hillel C. Neuer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Now that even Hamas accepts that Gaza is not occupied territory, why does the UN persist in claiming that it is?