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Against the Current
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Chaim Steinmetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Circumcision is incompatible with advanced 21st-century values; so, to its credit, is much of Judaism.
The Heights
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

U.S. and Israeli policy makers have yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to trade the Golan Heights for a peace deal with Syria is and always was a far-fetched dream.
Sharansky on Bonner
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Gal Beckerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Andrei Sakharov was "the spirit" of Soviet dissident movement; his wife Elena Bonner, an ardent supporter of Israel who died on June 18, was "the energy and the warmth."
Digging for Jerusalem’s Jewish Roots
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The unveiling of a new complex of ruins from the period of King Solomon's Temple offers yet another rebuke to deniers of a Jewish presence in the capital city of biblical Israel.
The Palestinians of 1967
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In eastern Jerusalem, more and more Arabs are taking out Israeli citizenship, first offered to them in 1967; others remain passive and conflicted. (With photographs.)
Prayer Space
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Joey Corbett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Archaeologists working in the eastern Galilee have unearthed three ancient synagogues, one of them, at Magdala, among the oldest ever found.
What Dancing Leads To
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1960, a controversy over mixed dancing in Orthodox synagogues erupted in the pages of the British Jewish press.
Telling Their Own Stories
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the particularities, and the universality, of the genre.
I Married a Jew
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Anonymous | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1939, a German-American woman was moved "to tell the world how it really is between a Christian and a Jew, since the world is evidently so intensely interested."
Where are the Jewish Refugees?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 by Warren Kozak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The wretched survivors of Hitler and of Arab cruelty were taken in by their fellow Jews and helped to get back on their feet; imagine if, like the Palestinians, they had been kept stateless for generations.