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The Least of These
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1872, a German architect became one of the only Westerners ever allowed to investigate underneath the Temple Mount. The wooden model he created remains a key source of information for archeologists.
Incentivizing Organ Donation
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Danielle Ofri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel, until now ranked at the bottom of Western countries on organ donation, has started incorporating "nonmedical" criteria into the priority-based transplant list for organs. It's working.
Education vs. Advocacy
Friday, February 17, 2012 by David Bernstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The need to balance critical thinking and national pride is not limited to Israel education. But while education and advocacy are not one and the same, neither are they mutually exclusive.
Redefining Religious Activity Redefining Religious Activity
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Meir Soloveichik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In August of 1790, Moses Seixas, a leading member of the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, composed a letter to then President George Washington, who was visiting Newport. In his letter, Seixas gave voice to his people's love of America and its liberties.
Crisis of Succession
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the spiritual leader of Israel's Lithuanian Haredi community, has never chosen a successor. Now that he is critically ill, the Haredi world may soon be facing a power struggle.
Russia’s Useful Idiots
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Michael C. Moynihan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Fans of the cable network RT may view it as an impartial alternative to Western news coverage, but in reality it is a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin, and uncritical viewers are his dupes.
A Delicate Balance
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Oded Haklai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's Arabs are regarded as victims by the Left and a fifth column by the Right. In fact they play the system like any other group, and the state must allow them to do so.
From Slovakia to Flatbush
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Binyamin Rose | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The busiest synagogue in Flatbush traces its roots to a bunker in rural Slovakia, where its founder, Yechezkel Shraga Landau, led a community in hiding during the war.
Analyzing Iran’s Attacks
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

This week's attacks by Iran's proxies on Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia, and Thailand have been strategically located in countries with which Israel is building diplomatic and military ties.
The Anatomy of Life and Death The Anatomy of Life and Death
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Armin Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In 2010 the New York Review of Books published a now-famous essay by former New Republic editor Peter Beinart, who argued that liberal Zionism was on the decline in Israel and that the "American Jewish establishment" was partly to blame.
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