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What Illegal Settlements?Thursday, December 3, 2009 by David Phillips | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish neighborhoods, towns, and cities in the West Bank may be controversial, but they do not transgress international law.Iran in Its Sights
Monday, October 26, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unless Tehran does an about-face, history suggests that Israel will attack in a way that does not require U.S. permission, or even a warning.
Hitler’s Last Laugh?Saturday, October 24, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Loving it or hating it -- or both -- reviewers of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds have seemed most at ease deconstructing its artful camerawork or tracking its profuse references to other movies. Better that, perhaps, than grappling with the theme: a fairy-tale transvaluation of Nazi villains into the hapless victims of brutally avenging American Jewish soldiers, played largely for jokes and gore. According to one report, German audiences at sold-out screenings have taken the movie in the spirit of an uproarious if grisly entertainment. American critics, like the reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor or Manohla Dargis in the New York...
Saturday, January 1, 2000 by Wallace Greene | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Given that habit-forming narcotics are routinely prescribed for the relief of pain, and that such relief is mandated by the halachah, it would seem that medical marijuana can be prescribed according to Jewish law.