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Who Is A Jew?Monday, February 11, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1958, David Ben-Gurion consulted with Jewish scholars and leaders around the world in hopes of finding a universal definition. He received 45 different answers, of course.Britain’s New Jews
Monday, February 11, 2013 by David Dee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By promoting participation in sports, the Anglo-Jewish establishment transformed Eastern European immigrants from aliens to “Englishmen and women of the Mosaic persuasion”—at the expense of their Judaism.Whatever Happened to the Hittites?
Monday, February 11, 2013 by Trevor Bryce | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Hittite Empire once stretched from the Aegean in the west to the Euphrates in the east. But when invaders finally destroyed its capital, Hattusa, they found the city deserted.

Friday, February 8, 2013 by Jacob Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Was there any possibility," asks Jacob Katz in this 1996 Commentary essay, "that the Jews collectively might have been accepted in Europe on their own terms—that is, as a community, with a religion opposed to Christianity?"
Friday, February 8, 2013 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite pressure from France and Germany, Bulgaria has blamed Hizballah for the July 2012 bombing that killed 5 Israelis—and made the E.U.'s refusal to blacklist Hizballah untenable.Crying Foul Over Contraception
Friday, February 8, 2013 by Tamar Sternthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newspapers around the world have claimed that Israel forcibly gave contraception to Ethiopian women making aliyah. But the evidence does not support the accusation.The Next Generation
Friday, February 8, 2013 by Dana Evan Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jack Wertheimer's new study of young American Jewish leaders claims that, contrary to popular belief, not all of them are working to bring down the establishment.Rebelling In God’s Name
Friday, February 8, 2013 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"When we go to synagogue, it is a protest against man’s arrogance in thinking that he can do it all himself."