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Narratives of Struggle and JihadTuesday, June 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Statements by Islamist participants in the Gaza flotilla.An Intractable Conflict
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Alex Grobman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the platform of Hamas insists, the fundamental objective of Islamism is the defeat and destruction not only of Israel but of "whoever supported or supports it."No Patience
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The civilized world would rather work with Hamas than help free the Palestinians from its crushing grip.Who Should Apologize to Whom?
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Victor Davis Hanson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It should be Turkey—and not just in the matter of the Gaza flotilla, and not just to Israel.The New Middle East
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Josef Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Next to Iran, Turkey, a member of NATO, is the West's biggest headache.Poles, Jews, and Nazis
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In telling a twisted, terrible history, where to strike the balance?
The Chief RabbinateMonday, June 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On May 23, Israel's chief rabbinate issued new regulations requiring prospective couples whose parents had been married by someone other than a rabbinate-approved rabbi to apply, along with their mothers, for a full inquiry into their Jewishness. The regulations provide for inquiries into the Jewishness of other couples as well. In the meantime, making deft use of its authority over conversions to Judaism, the rabbinate has acted to delegitimize other rabbis, in particular from the Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist movements, as a whole. Founded as a body that would help unify the modern Jewish state, the rabbinate (Hebrew: rabbanut) has...
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Shoshana London Sappir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 18th-century Suriname synagogue joins similar structures from Germany, Italy, and India now on display at the Israel Museum.Bad Moon Rising
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For one more sign of the failure of American Middle East policy, see Ankara's increasingly vigorous identification with and sponsorship of the Islamic "resistance."What Israel’s Friends Need to Remember
Friday, June 4, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever Israel's military may have done poorly, it did not do wrong.