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Jewish Homeland Security
Monday, November 29, 2010 by Edmund Sanders and Batsheva Sobelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel is moving aggressively to turn domestic-security goods and technology into one of its biggest exports.
In Jewish Barcelona
Monday, November 29, 2010 by Arthur Wolak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The city's rich Jewish history, including perhaps the oldest surviving synagogue in Europe, deserves to be thoroughly explored.
Technical Difficulties
Monday, November 29, 2010 by Ben Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What is driving Israel's apparent willingness to postpone a confrontation over Iran's nuclear program: a newfound faith in sanctions, or the belief that the Stuxnet virus has slowed the program?
Light on Darkness
Friday, November 26, 2010 by Susie Linfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A study of Holocaust fiction successfully removes the "Do Not Enter" signs that have been erected around artistic representations of the Holocaust.
Hamas Refutes Goldstone
Friday, November 26, 2010 by Steven Stotsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a little-reported about-face, the terror organization has admitted the low number of deaths it suffered during Operation Cast Lead, thereby thoroughly undermining the Goldstone Report.
Evolving toward Leniency?
Friday, November 26, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In subtle but noticeable ways, the Conservative movement is shifting its position with regard to intermarried families.
Story of a Vote
Friday, November 26, 2010 by Toldot Yisrael | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Eyewitness accounts of the November 1947 UN vote to partition Mandate Palestine into two states. (Video)
Twos and Lids
Friday, November 26, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Decoding the terms of Cockney rhyming slang for Jews.
A Prayer for America
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 by David De Sola Pool | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Scant months after the end of World War II, a Thanksgiving Day liturgy was compiled by the rabbi of New York's Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue. (1945, PDF)
Free Palestine!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If Palestinians cannot abide a single free-thinking blogger in their midst, can they be free in any meaningful sense of the word?