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Crossing OverMonday, May 23, 2011 by Lorraine Adams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How a Jewish girl from the New York suburbs became a polemicist for Islamism.The Ingathering
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Ofer Aderet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Almost a century before their co-religionists reached out definitively to Ethiopian Jews, a researcher named Jacques Faitlovitch laid the ground for their future ingathering.The Kugel-Kimchi Complex
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Kathy Seal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A study based on a sample of 37 intermarried Asian-Jewish couples found that overwhelmingly the children are being raised Jewish.
Sympathy for the DevilMonday, May 23, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Occupying a place of particular infamy in Jewish collective memory is an 18th-century serial apostate, sexual deviant, messianic pretender, and chameleonic charlatan. His name was Jacob Frank.
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Seth Kadish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Should scholars of Judaica publish their work on the Internet instead of between covers? Only if they want people to read it.Charity Begins at Home
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a first for Israel, a community near Tel Aviv has adopted the American "federation" model in order to generate local funding for local causes.Keeping Assad Out in the Cold
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the massacre zone that is Syria, the country's dictator has admitted that "mistakes" were made. The ending will be grim.
Israel and Western GuiltFriday, May 20, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Confront Your Privilege." So reads a "subtly coercive" sign on display at tony American liberal-arts colleges. Why coercive? Because, as Wilfred McClay explains in an illuminating recent essay in First Things, what such signs are really telling the students is, "Feel Guilty."
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as he acknowledges that the real challenge in the Middle East is whether Arab societies can make the transition to freedom, the President has dealt Israel a telling diplomatic blow.Cut Flowers
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Steve Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Four in every ten self-identified American Jews call themselves "secular." But without the soil of religion, how can a commitment to Judaism grow or sustain itself?