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Asymmetric LawfareFriday, December 4, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Goldstone Report on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war, endorsed by the UN General Assembly on November 5, has taken on a life of its own in the court of world public opinion. Increasingly, both its enthusiasts and its detractors see it as a weapon, even more potent than the UN’s Zionism-Racism resolution of November 1975, in a campaign to render illegitimate the very existence of the state of Israel. So loud has the drumbeat over the Report become, and so widening its repercussions, that an entire website—cited in the first item below—is needed to collect the facts and to...
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Masha Gessen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the 75th anniversary of its establishment by the Soviet regime, the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan is a barren monument to the conjunction of misplaced idealism with brute power politics.Four Seasons Lodge
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Andrew Jacobs, and director | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent movie (watch trailer) offers an extraordinary look at an American community of Holocaust survivors, gathering for the last time.What Illegal Settlements?
Friday, December 4, 2009 by David Phillips | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish neighborhoods, towns, and cities in the West Bank may be controversial, but they do not transgress international law.Spinoza v. Maimonides
Friday, December 4, 2009 by Steven Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book by Rabbi Marc Angel attempts to resuscitate the idea of rational Judaism, and partly succeeds.Four Seasons Lodge
Thursday, December 3, 2009 by Andrew Jacobs, and director | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new movie (watch trailer) offers an extraordinary look at an American community of Holocaust survivors, gathering for the last time.What Illegal Settlements?
Thursday, December 3, 2009 by David Phillips | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish neighborhoods, towns, and cities in the West Bank may be controversial, but they do not transgress international law.Iran in Its Sights
Monday, October 26, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unless Tehran does an about-face, history suggests that Israel will attack in a way that does not require U.S. permission, or even a warning.
Hitler’s Last Laugh?Saturday, October 24, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Loving it or hating it -- or both -- reviewers of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds have seemed most at ease deconstructing its artful camerawork or tracking its profuse references to other movies. Better that, perhaps, than grappling with the theme: a fairy-tale transvaluation of Nazi villains into the hapless victims of brutally avenging American Jewish soldiers, played largely for jokes and gore. According to one report, German audiences at sold-out screenings have taken the movie in the spirit of an uproarious if grisly entertainment. American critics, like the reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor or Manohla Dargis in the New York...
Saturday, January 1, 2000 by Wallace Greene | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Given that habit-forming narcotics are routinely prescribed for the relief of pain, and that such relief is mandated by the halachah, it would seem that medical marijuana can be prescribed according to Jewish law.
