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Europe’s New ReligionWednesday, August 29, 2012 by Dov Maimon and Nadia Ellis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As human rights becomes Europe’s reigning code of ethics, Jews across the continent face attacks by the secular establishment on ritual circumcision. (PDF) Lebanon’s Unholy Bedfellows
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by Hilal Khashan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Lebanon the Maronites are Christian liberals, while the Shiites are Islamic theocrats. The contradiction hasn’t kept them from an alliance based on resentment of Sunni domination.Homeshuling
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by Steve Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the cost of Jewish schools in America soars, several hundred families have taken to educating their children at home.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Is Jewish education a parental or communal responsibility? The privately funded heder, with its melamed, or tutor, emphasizes the parental aspect. The publicly maintained talmud torah, or congregational school, emphasizes the communal obligation.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Noam Chomsky is more or less the last survivor of a group of intellectuals who thought systemic political violence was essentially a good thing. (Interview by Michael J. Totten)One Small Step
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by Michael Pitkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Neil Armstrong was more excited to walk the stairs leading to Jerusalem’s Temple than to walk on the moon.Is “Torah from Heaven” a Myth?
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
And by “myth,” do we mean an imaginative recreation of the past, or simply an invented past?After Apartheid
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While many South African Jews actively opposed apartheid, post-apartheid South Africa has not proved entirely hospitable to the Jewish community.