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The ExodustersThursday, April 5, 2012 by Yoram Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Three of the Founding Fathers proposed a U.S. seal depicting Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, with the inscription: "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."Theater of the Absurd
Thursday, April 5, 2012 by Danny Ayalon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The world's worst human rights offenders have hijacked the UN Human Rights Council, and Israel isn't going to put up with it any more.Will Churches Boycott Israel?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The five biggest mainline Protestant denominations in the United States have all debated or adopted policies intended to divest from or boycott Israel. And much will be decided in the next few months. And It Came to Pass at Midnight
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Michael Pitkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Audio and video of several renditions of "Karev Yom," a Byzantine-era piyyut sung at the end of the seder.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As long as humans have been writing, humans have been making lists and ranking things. The new Daily Beast/Newsweek list of "America's Top 50 Rabbis for 2012" is, like most American lists, whether of rabbis, cars, or colleges, designed to shape reality as much as reflect it.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Twenty-two Jewish figures speak about Obama, utopia, apocalyptic Judaism, psychological rescue, and the concept of mashiah today—and one names the man whom he believes to be Judaism's messiah-in-waiting. The End of the Land-for-Peace Era
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Livni's defeat indicates that Israel may be headed back to a political system based on two major parties—both with a focus on socioeconomic issues and a sadder-but-wiser skepticism about territorial concessions.The Rabbi Who Writes Too Much
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Gary Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just how pronounced is the graphomania of Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick? One professor found 954 titles by Schick in the catalog of the National Library of Israel—and those were just the ones in Hebrew.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The news report hardly makes an impression on most Israelis: another West Bank checkpoint search, another discovery of explosives and weapons, and the familiar finale: "The suspect was taken in for questioning by the Shin Bet."
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 by Nick Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As Communism gave way to anti-colonialism, Israel remained a target for special rage on the Left, even though Zionism was both a settler movement and an anti-colonial movement.