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On the Ninth of AvFriday, July 16, 2010 by Frank Talmage | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Catalonia, the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and horrors, a student of history is beset by a torrent of emotions. (PDF)British Jews and Israel
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Graham and Jonathan Boyd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a comprehensive survey, a solid majority of UK Jews say Israel plays a "central" or "important" role in their Jewish identities. (PDF)Censorship as Tolerance
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Jacob Mchangama | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Europe's hate-speech codes are a clear and present danger to the freedom of expression that citizenship requires.
The Other TalmudFriday, July 16, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Jewish classic known as much for its obscurity as for its great significance took another step into the light this spring with the online publication of its oldest and most reliable version. The classic is the Jerusalem Talmud, and the version is a parchment manuscript, known as the Leiden manuscript, written in 1289 by a Jewish scholar and copyist in Rome.
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Dagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On some kibbutzim, capitalist ends are served by socialist means.Israel through European Eyes
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Yoram Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why do so many educated Westerners view the Jewish state not as the answer to Auschwitz but as, itself, a hateful variant of Nazism? And what is to be done about this?China’s Jewish Connection
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Miron Rezun | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A historical kinship exists between Jews and Chinese, if not between China and the Jewish state.Harper Lee and Sam Levy
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On its fiftieth anniversary, To Kill a Mockingbird is being subjected to second-wave criticism, including for its treatment of southern Jews.Sacred Ground?
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Emmanuel Navon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Western Wall is a Muslim holy site, and other fabrications.What Was Lost on Tisha b’Av
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Shlomo Riskin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Temple was not only a symbol of Jewish national sovereignty; it was the means by which the message of God was to be promulgated throughout the world.