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Crackdown in FranceTuesday, August 31, 2010 by Devorah Lauter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
President Nicolas Sarkozy's tough new security-related initiatives have earned widespread denunciation—but not from French Jews.

Monday, August 30, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a show of solidarity with Israel, leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will be gathering in Jerusalem at the end of the month. Not to be confused with the American Jewish Congress, of which it was originally an outgrowth, or the World Zionist Congress, founded by Theodor Herzl, the WJC is an umbrella group of Diaspora organizations (including the European Jewish Congress, the Latin American Jewish Congress, and others) that defines itself somewhat grandly as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." If you haven't heard of it, there's a reason.
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Elizabeth Weingarten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iranian Jews in America straddle at least three different societies and identities; still, they build their homes of brick, to last.Greek Justice
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Richard Ayoun | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Those arrested in the devastating double arson of an exquisitely restored 16th-century Cretan synagogue will evidently not face trial; a pattern is at work here. (Scroll down for English text.)Does Halakhah Change?
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Francis Nataf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Innovation in Jewish religious law is natural; but, as a new book suggests, everything depends on the context and the circumstances.Through a Warped Lens
Monday, August 30, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to the Holocaust, even a documentary based on original footage, like Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished, has more in common with other movies than with the experience it depicts.Not Your Grandmother’s Candlesticks
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Menachem Wecker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To view the works exhibited at a recent show of contemporary ritual Judaica is to ask where the line should be drawn between Jewish art and Jewish kitsch.To Be Self-Fruitful and Multiply
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Gilit Chomsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Orthodox women who find themselves single at a certain age are having children on their own, absent a unified rabbinic position. Do I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem?
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Theodore Sasson, Benjamin Phillips, Charles Kadushin, and Leonard Saxe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A June 2010 survey finds the majority of American Jews still attached to Israel, with those under forty-five somewhat less so; political ideology is not a factor. (PDF.)

Friday, August 27, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Every first-year law student knows that hard cases make bad law. In Israel, a particularly hard case lies in the ongoing controversy around an inflammatory Hebrew-language volume of Jewish religious law (halakhah) that offers justifications for violent treatment of non-Jews in general and of Israel's foes in particular. The debate has highlighted longstanding divisions within Israeli society; now that the courts and the police have gotten into the act, it has also highlighted the difficulties of drawing meaningful lines between free speech and incitement.