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Border Patrol
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The 1949 armistice lines were not a recognized international boundary, and they only invited Arab aggression; renaming them the "1967 borders" will not change history or bring peace.
We Do Not Need or Want This Mosque
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Abd al-Rahman al-Rashed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The planned mosque at Ground Zero is bound to become "an arena for the promoters of hatred and a monument to those who committed the crime" of 9/11—and most Muslims are against it.
How Bad Was Jezebel?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Janet Howe Gaines | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Every biblical word condemns her, but is there not something—much—to admire in this ancient queen?
Am I Helping the Boycotters?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jonathan Cristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even hostile articles about the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement are claimed as victories by the anti-Israel campaign; so why am I writing this one?
Of Dhimmitude and History
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two new and very different accounts of Muslim attitudes toward Jews are problematic, each in its own way, on the subject of anti-Semitism.
Retrieving A.M. Klein Retrieving A.M. Klein
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

What qualifies a literary work as "Jewish"? Debates on this subject, once conducted with rigor, have become sillier over the years, descending to the recent call for inducting the African American writer Walter Mosley—whose mother was Jewish, and in whose detective novels the heroes are all black men—into the Jewish literary pantheon.
Kissing Cognates
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Jerome Chanes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How Akkadian, the cuneiform language of a third-millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian dynasty, sheds fascinating light on the Hebrew Bible.
The Tolerance Police
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Abe Greenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For some supporters of the planned mosque at Ground Zero, preaching tolerance is just another way of impugning the arguments of opponents they cannot tolerate.
A Film Unfinished
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Gary Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.
My Summer in Israel
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Ahmed Moustafa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?