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Swedes Wear Kippot—with Police ProtectionWednesday, September 5, 2012 by Ilya Meyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sweden recently saw a striking event: Swedish Jews, normally invisible, demonstrating by wearing kippot en masse. They needed the police guard to protect against Islamic extremists.Yasir Arafat Poisoned?
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Volkhard Windfuhr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Eight years after Arafat’s mysterious death in Paris, the French have begun a criminal investigation. Who poisoned him? The Israelis? Or, with outside help, his Palestinian comrades?The Talmud in Dutch, a Tribute
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Holocaust survivor Jacob de Leeuwe has finished translating the first tractate into Dutch, in a tribute to a vanishing community and a work of "tikkun."
Spinoza in ShtreimelsTuesday, September 4, 2012 by Carlos Fraenkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Philosophy professor Carlos Fraenkel wrote that “the cultural relativism that often underlies Western multicultural agendas [is] a much greater obstacle to a culture of debate than religion.” Today, in an exclusive preview from the Jewish Review of Books, Fraenkel relates how his theory fared among a group of Hasidim.