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What the New Atheists Ignore
Friday, April 12, 2013 by Christopher Orlet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"I am still waiting for a single atheist group to open a hospital or school, offer free health clinics, beds for the homeless, food for the hungry, or transportation for the elderly."
Israel’s Gatekeepers Israel’s Gatekeepers
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The Gatekeepers is not a history of Israel's security service, its operations and directors, but a political plea for the evacuation of the West Bank, the creation of a Palestinian state, and the suppression of Israeli’s religious settler movement.
Torah in the Knesset
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Dov Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Yesh Atid is trying to bring about an environment where mentioning God or our classic sources doesn’t mean that the next step is we’re forcing religion on you." (Interview by Elliot Resnick)
Meshaal, the Moderate?
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Alan Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal rejects peace with Israel, refusing to "relinquish an inch" of land.  But Egypt has guaranteed his re-election in the hope of avoiding war.
Helga’s Diary
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A child in Prague in the 1930s, Helga Weiss kept a diary of life under Nazi rule and her subsequent experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz.  Now, 70 years later, she has published it.
Rationalizing the Commandments
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Lawrence H. Schiffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Pseudepigraphal Book of Jubilees, a retelling of Genesis, explains the Torah's commandments in terms of God's covenant with the Patriarchs.
“I Used to Be an Islamist”
Thursday, April 11, 2013 by Ahmad Mansour | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"The imam evoked the oppression of the umma who had to fight for the liberation of Palestine.  He forcefully spoke of the accursed Jews; the inevitable recapture of Spain; and finally the Islamization of Europe."