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Closing the Terror GapTuesday, July 12, 2011 by Clifford D. May | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What do the Second Amendment, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and support for Israel have in common?Reclaimed
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Doreen Carvajal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Centuries after the forced conversion of their ancestors to Catholicism, members of fifteen families on the island of Majorca have been recognized as full-fledged Jews.Baby Un-Boom
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Tamar Rotem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are ultra-Orthodox Israeli women giving up their "career" of multiple childbearing?The Hebrew Hammer
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The closest a Jewish hitter has come to perfection: Hank Greenberg's 58 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1938.Man-oh-Manischewitz
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the world's largest manufacturer of gefilte fish came to be headed by two Moroccan Jews from Casablanca.Diplomacy, Flotilla Style
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If diplomacy stopped this year's flotilla to Gaza, could it have stopped last year's?
Imaginary Vampires, Imagined JewsMonday, July 11, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
1897 was a watershed year in Jewish history. And now, Jewish historians may consider adding a surprising entry to the list of that year's events that proved so repercussive in Jewish history: the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dropouts from Orthodoxy are growing in number, but many of them never leave completely; in this there may be a peculiar sign of hope.I’m Not Marching
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood represents, at the moment, more of a danger to the chance of implementing a two-state solution than a way of promoting it.Why So Many Jews in Comedy?
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Gladstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reflections on a relationship that has been noted frequently by scholars, by serious talk-show hosts, and by pudgy guys in Jewish fraternities.