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Immunity for Terrorists?
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 by Anirban Bhaumik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The 2008 Mumbai terrorists killed over 150, including Chabad hostages.  Victims’ families have sued Pakistan’s secret service for its role.  The State Department wants to grant it immunity.
Right of Return: Me, Too
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 by Soeren Kern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Spain has offered citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled in 1492.  But Spain also expelled Moorish Muslims—and their North African descendants are crying foul.
Uncle Joe
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 by D. G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“If anyone who is not his nephew is entitled to call Joseph Epstein ‘Uncle Joe,’ it is I. Or at least I once was.”
Jerusalem Rebuilt
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City restored, Israel plans to rebuild the neighboring Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, reclaiming another piece of Jerusalem’s Ottoman-Era glory.
Berlin’s Black Christmas
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 by Mark Steyn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“White Christmas,” by Irving Berlin, a Siberian Jew, helped define the holiday for Americans.  But for Berlin himself, Christmas was the day he lost his baby son.
How December 25 Became Christmas
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 by Andrew McGowan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It's no coincidence that Christmas is nine months to the day from the Feast of the Annunciation—which marks the day Jesus was conceived.
New Year’s Resolutions
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Syria’s government recently killed dozens of Palestinian refugees near Damascus.  So, the UN has passed resolutions calling for the return of the Golan’s inhabitants to Syria’s control.
Caught in the Crossfire
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 by Matthias Schulz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Was pre-Islamic Yemen a multicultural paradise, where Jews, Christians, and pagans lived in perfect harmony until the Byzantines ruined everything?