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How I Became an IslamistMonday, July 2, 2012 by Maajid Nawaz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now a democratic activist, at the time the author joined the pan-Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir, he was a disaffected British teenager who had never read the Koran.Why Do Hasidim Dress Like That?
Monday, July 2, 2012 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Does anybody ask a congressman why he walks into Congress with a suit or a Wall Street executive why he goes to work in a suit?”
War and Peace: the Jewish VersionMonday, July 2, 2012 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Imagine no religion—and, therefore, no war. It’s easy if you try, and a number of recent writers have done so: the "new atheists," who find religion irrational and believe that its skewed perspective permits, encourages, sometimes even demands war.
Friday, June 29, 2012 by Josh Nathan-Kazis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite the prohibition on cremation in Jewish law, and despite the tradition of burial, dating back to Abraham buying the land for Sarah’s grave, ever more Jews are choosing to return to ashes.The New Palestinian
Friday, June 29, 2012 by Hamze Awawde | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Internet has given young Palestinians access to the whole world—and raised a generation that thinks differently.Remembering the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Friday, June 29, 2012 by Joseph Telushkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than any other Hasidic sect, Lubavitch centered around the personality of its charismatic leader. But eighteen years this Shabbat since his death, Chabad is bigger and more active than ever before.
Hollywood Goes to AuschwitzFriday, June 29, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hollywood’s first encounter with the Holocaust came decades before Schindler’s List or any such dramatizations. The footage of genocide and its perpetrators, captured by three iconic American directors, shaped not only how we perceive the Holocaust, but also the subsequent development of American cinema—and the directors themselves.
Friday, June 29, 2012 by Yair Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While a German court has provoked outrage by outlawing infant circumcision, it has excepted cases of medical need. Yet the scientific consensus has long held that nothing prevents HIV like circumcision.The Rookie
Friday, June 29, 2012 by George Vecsey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When Gilad Shalit became a sports columnist for Yediot Aharonot, some Israelis grumbled. But perhaps someone who spent five years in a cell has a unique perspective on the lessons of the playing field.
