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Facebook and the Third IntifadaThursday, March 24, 2011 by Alana Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In light of the recent terrorist attacks on Israel, will the social-media website finally remove a page calling for mass violence against Jews?The Pride of British Jewry
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Rebecca Schischa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alongside and despite the new anti-Semitism, England today is witnessing a revival of Jewish culture, art, learning, and religious life.Ancient Currency
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Michele Chabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new study calls for using private-sector models to transform Israel's woefully underfunded "heritage" sites into revenue producers.Hasidic Rap
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Binyomin Ginzberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Lipa Schmeltzer, a hugely popular hasidic singer, frightens the rabbis and sells out Madison Square Garden. (With video)Of Making Many Books There Is No End
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Writing created information, printing democratized it, and the Internet is drowning it. The Jewish book, if it is to survive, must adjust to the new reality.The Liar as Hero
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ilan Pappé, best known for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), is a hero of the anti-Zionist cause—and a brazen distorter and falsifier of the historical record. Iron Man
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A fitting antidote to Israel Apartheid Week is Vladimir Jabotinsky's magnificent novel Samson (1928), which adheres to the biblical story while giving voice to the unconquerable spirit within Zionism. The Red Beret and the Rabbis
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Religious Zionism is in urgent need of shifting away from the rabbinical and back to the political. But its encounters in that sphere have not always gone smoothly.
Three BlessingsWednesday, March 23, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Jewish prayer book (siddur) is thick with texts: blessings, thanksgivings, and petitions, instructions, theological claims, and historical memories. Some traditional texts bear especially outsized burdens. In this respect, few can rival three lines that begin "Blessed are you O God, King of the Universe, Who has not made me . . . " and conclude, respectively, "a goy [Gentile]," "a slave," and "a woman."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Shmuel Moreh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1941 pogrom in Baghdad was part of the Nazis' global plan to annihilate the Jews wherever they were—including the Middle East.

