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The Measure of MarxMonday, May 7, 2012 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Rather than focus on biblical sources, I decided to alert [UNESCO] to the fact that there has been a Jewish majority in Jerusalem since the 1850s, before the emergence of Zionism." According to whom? Karl Marx.Cancelling Conversions
Monday, May 7, 2012 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fraud? Sin? A romantic link to a Gentile? Under what circumstances can a conversion to Judaism be annulled?
Our Zoroastrian MomentMonday, May 7, 2012 by Shai Secunda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The great contemporary scholar of religion Jonathan Z. Smith once remarked that the omnipresent substructure of human thought lies in the human capacity to make comparisons. In ancient Sumer, scribes crafted intricate similes.
Monday, May 7, 2012 by Tom Streithorst | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Homeland is a hit not only with the press but with the president—though unlike the Israeli show on which it is based, it doesn't have a clue about terrorism, national security, Iraq, or the CIA.Debate: Zionism and American Jews
Friday, May 4, 2012 by Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The proposition: Zionism is failing and American Jews are hastening its decline. (Video)
Mumbai WeddingFriday, May 4, 2012 by Joseph Mayton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As the afternoon sun hit its peak, Haran and I pulled up to his small one-and-a-half-bedroom flat on the outskirts of East Mumbai, India, some 20 minutes from the airport. The building's shiny tin roof showed that money was in short supply. But inside the apartment, with Indian hospitality, Haran's wife Geeta served me perfectly spiced hot tea.
Friday, May 4, 2012 by Christoph Gunkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Albert Göring has remained essentially unknown—perhaps because it's hard to believe that the brother of Hitler's deputy was a member of the resistance.When Stalinism Was in Vogue
Friday, May 4, 2012 by Michael Moynihan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Playwright Lillian Hellman disdained a system that made her fabulously rich while romanticizing one that made its citizens spectacularly poor.Sorrow in the Talmud
Friday, May 4, 2012 by Marc Bregman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Counterintuitively, traditional Jewish teaching inculcated right behavior by relating how even the greatest leaders sometimes failed to behave according to their own principles.Mixed Views
Friday, May 4, 2012 by Anav Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Last month, Israel became the first Middle Eastern country to be added to Google Street View. It remains to be seen whether the technology will be a bigger boon to tourists or terrorists.