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Iranian Jewry TodayThursday, August 16, 2012 by Shai Secunda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In late June 2012, the Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran addressed an international conference on the proliferation of illicit drugs. He acknowledged his country’s extensive border with Afghanistan, the largest producer of illegal opium in the world. But he also blamed the crisis on the Babylonian Talmud.
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Pablo Gorondi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hungary’s far-Right Jobbik party has ostracized a prominent anti-Semitic political figure after discovering his Jewish roots—and Chabad has taken him in. Britain’s Other Chief Rabbi
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Gideon Sylvester | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the spiritual leader of Britain’s Sephardi community, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy has championed a tolerant Orthodoxy and brought Anglo-Jewry’s competing factions closer together. Israel: The Home Video
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Michal Shmulovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new film brings together amateur footage spanning 60 years—from Jews sailing to pre-state Palestine to an eight-couple wedding to Menachem Begin making peace with Anwar Sadat.The New South Africa?
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Ben Levitas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the South African government regularly accuses Israel of oppression, it remains on good terms with Mugabe, Omar Bashir, and Assad. Accounting for Anti-Zionism
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is often dismissed as “Zionist propaganda.” But the claim challenges one of the fundamental tenets of Zionism.
