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Dishonoring MLK
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Martin Luther King, Jr. was quite clear: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews."  But one high school student has just won a writing award in King's name by slandering Israel.    
What is Modesty?
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Dov Linzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Talmud forbids a man from gazing sexually at even a woman's "smallest finger." Does it thus require women to cover their hands? No; it places the burden of self-control on men.
A Very English Institution A Very English Institution
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Last week some 600 Jews converged on the hamlet of Kerhonkson in upstate New York for Limmud NY, a three-day "marketplace of Jewish ideas." Now in its eighth year, the volunteer-run Limmud NY is open to professional teachers and amateurs alike.
Moses Descending Yosemite’s Half Dome
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By combining a focus on the lost and endangered with attention to the local and a taste for the avant-garde, the Magnes Museum helped define an approach to Judaism that was deliberately decentered.
Strange Land
Monday, January 23, 2012 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Couldn't the New York Times find a writer without heavy-duty psychological baggage to pen a travel feature on Israel?  (Maybe not, but Matt Gross's article might still be a welcome narrative.)      
Whither the Alawites Whither the Alawites
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Time does not appear to be on the side of Syria's minority Alawite-led regime. President Bashar Assad has reportedly been offered asylum in Moscow, which wants an orderly transition that will preserve Russian strategic interests. Other stories have Assad and his loyalists preparing mountain strongholds for a last-ditch stand.
Cyberwar
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Eli Lake | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Arab-Israeli conflict is normally fought with Katyusha rockets and Merkava tanks, but the conflict's latest weapon is a botnet.
Kosher Jesus
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Shmuley Boteach's strategy is a familiar one—reject the Gospels and strip Christianity of its beliefs. It is, in fact, an old form of polemic. (And Boteach's reaction to media coverage of his book is telling.)      
Are Jews Trending Republican?
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Conservatives have often tried to convince the public that a new wave of Jewish Republicans was just around the corner. So far, they've only been disappointed—but should now watch the independents.
Debate-Changer
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Judging from a recent spate of articles in some of the country's most respectable mainstream publications, it seems that while Walt and Mearsheimer lost the policy battle, they are winning the war of ideas.