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Hominid-Lupine Transmogrification
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 by J. Remus Bloch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Viz., metamorphosis from bipedal omnivorous hominids into lupine carnivorous canids. (Some "Purim Torah" on the werewolf)
Agunot
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ta'anit Esther, the traditional fast day preceding Purim, is observed today. In recent years it has been designated as an international day of study, reflection, and calls to action on behalf of agunot, literally "anchored" or "bound" women.
Wine
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On Purim, Jews are commanded, among other things, to drink. While all manner of intoxicants will do, pride of place has always gone to wine, humanity's favored escape from consciousness since the dawn of recorded time.
A Tale of Two Synagogues
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by David Gelernter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Frank Lloyd Wright's sprawling celebration of suburban Judaism echoes the shape of a long-ago building in Poland. And that echo tells us something about the remarkable history of synagogue architecture. (With images)
Rhetorical Record
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Dan Senor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Obama claims to have done more for Israel's security than any previous president, but his record, along with the discontent it has provoked within the Democratic party, tells a different story.
Raising Cane
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Benjamin of Tudela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How did the story of a debtor hiding gold inside a walking cane (both to deceive his creditor and to avoid technically lying under oath) make its way from the Talmud to Don Quixote?
Forked Tonge
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Howard Jacobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Dismissed from the UK's Liberal Democrat party for an apparent longing for Israel's extinction, Jenny Tonge cried foul. But hating Israel doesn't grant automatic immunity from the charge of loathing Jews.
On the Record
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Which organization brought the first John Deere tractor to Ukraine? What killer disease was eradicated in Ottoman Palestine by a Jewish doctor? A unique chronicle of Jewish life abroad comes to the web.
A Convenient Hatred A Convenient Hatred
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

With some 1,000 books currently in print on the subject, does the world desperately need another tome on anti-Semitism? What difference will it make, when anti-Israelism provides only the latest justification for Europe's persistent prejudice against Jews and anti-Semitic views are shared by 15 percent of Americans and 90 percent of Muslims worldwide?
Russian Renaissance
Monday, March 5, 2012 by David Rozenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an interview, the director of the Avi Chai Foundation in the Former Soviet Union speaks of escaping the USSR as a boy, and of returning as an adult to rebuild Jewish life (Part I; Part II is here).
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