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Nakba and NarrativeWednesday, May 16, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The simple narrative of the 1948 displacement of Palestinian Arabs erases the uncomfortable truth that half of Israel's Jews are there not because of the Nazis but because of the Arabs themselves.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
If Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's Labor Party, emerges victorious from the country's next general election, he will become the first Jewish Prime Minister to inhabit Number 10 Downing Street since Benjamin Disraeli renovated the innards of that venerable residence in 1877.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Nick Pinto | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What's missing from the New York Times' front-page stories on sex abuse in Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox communities? Acknowledgement of the reportage lifted from Jewish media outlets.Israel’s Gay Pride
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of gay Palestinians sheltered by Israel—some 300 in the last 20 years—goes unreported in the Western media, which is happy to hold Arabs to a lower standard.Megalopolis
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Avital Lahav | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is the solution to Israel's housing crisis the creation of a mega-city encompassing much of central Israel?Sally Priesand and the Reality Principle
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Michele Alperin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Forty years ago, the first woman rabbi intended to get married and have children, and planned to have a nursery next to her synagogue office. Reality turned out to be different.Israel’s Future Air Force
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Amir Mizroch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nano drones that an infantryman can pull out of his pocket, robots that can extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield, algorithms that resolve pilots' ethical dilemmas . . .Black Hats and Cassocks
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Avi Shafran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Prudent, measured insularity is not asceticism, and Haredim aren't monks.Common Denominator
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Bryan Schwartzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across denominational lines, rabbis are facing the same problems—and are actually working together to solve them.A Serious Man
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Joseph Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One day Hilton Kramer appeared to drop off his copy in person at the New Leader offices. The editor asked him if he knew anyone who was looking for a job. "Actually, I do," he said. "Me."