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Monday, December 24, 2012 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Whereas Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu once hoped to win 50 seats together, now they are hemorrhaging support to Netanyahu’s one-time chief of staff, Naftali Bennett, and his party, Jewish Home.
Pakistan’s Forgotten Jews
Monday, December 24, 2012 by M. Bilal Lakhani | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

There is a new play at the Karachi Alliance Française about Karachi Jews.  Karachi’s actual Jews are gone, driven out of Pakistan along with all traces of their existence.
Until a Hundred Twenty Until a Hundred Twenty
Saturday, December 22, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

“Touch not Mine Anointed Ones” “Touch not Mine Anointed Ones”
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Contemplating what occupies God all day, the Talmud declares that “during the last set of hours, God sits and teaches Torah to children who died untimely deaths.”
Variations on a Theme
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Geza Vermes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Discrepancies among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Masoretic biblical text point to interpretative ferment in the time of Jesus.
Israel’s Fallen Warrior
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Dan Margalit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the IDF's 15th chief of staff, has died.  He survived the battles of Karameh and the Lebanon coast only to succumb to the more formidable foe of leukemia.
The Inscrutable Americans
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Peter Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

America is the West’s most religious country—but has the strictest separation between church and state.  No wonder foreigners are puzzled by the vagaries of American religion.
How Algeria Lost Its Jews
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Lyn Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new exhibit in Paris honors the Jews of Algeria—who, after 2,700 years in the country, were driven out by Arab attacks on Jewish property 50 years ago.
Giving Up on Humanity
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Ilan Feldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By failing to reach out to non-Orthodox Jews, says an Orthodox rabbi, "we have sold out on the view of man that was the keystone of Avraham Avinu."