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Abbas’s Police StateThursday, May 3, 2012 by Jonathan Schanzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Palestinian Authority moves to block websites critical of Abbas. The White House has sanctioned such behavior by Iran and Syria—but not the PA.Quebec’s Kosher Bootleggers
Thursday, May 3, 2012 by David Sugarman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Montreal Hasidim are selling kosher wine without a permit. Are the Hasidim acting criminally? Are the permitting laws effectively anti-Semitic? The answers are surprisingly unclear.
A Vote Not CastThursday, May 3, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When my Labor Zionist cousins made aliyah from New York City in the 1950s to an agricultural moshav outside Raanana they cast off comfort, kin, and familiarity for the yoke of pioneering Zionism. It was inevitable that they'd lose touch with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joe DiMaggio's love life, and the fate of the Third Avenue El.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Debra Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What's the difference between an "ordained" and an "invested" cantor? Plenty, say Reform officials.Alma, Tell Us
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Ilan Stavans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did Isaac Bashevis Singer's long-suffering wife write a memoir?Aharei Mot-K’doshim: Abide with Me
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week we are told that the Tent of Meeting "abides" in the midst of the Israelites—something that a tent ought not to be doing. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:28There are More Things in Heaven and Earth
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by David Winters | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
And there are other Walter Benjamins besides the post-Kantian philosopher dreamt of by Eli Friedlander.LDS POTUS?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nine rabbis from different walks of life reflect on what a Mormon president might mean to Jews.Refugees and Resolutions
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Lyn Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is afraid to champion restitution for Jews expelled from Arab countries because of the assumed link to the Palestinian refugee issue.
Songs and PsalmsWednesday, May 2, 2012 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After 17 years in Israel, our family has temporarily relocated to Brooklyn. For a week after we arrived, our pious Jewish neighbors ignored us. Then, on Shabbat, three of them finally approached us, one after another—to tell us that the neighborhood eruv we were using really didn't exist and that we were profaning the Sabbath.