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Thatcher’s Other Special Relationship
Friday, April 12, 2013 by Shimon Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A confidant and adviser throughout her time in office, Margaret Thatcher said of Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits: "He was my friend—I relied on him and miss him so."
The Elephant in the Mosque
Friday, April 12, 2013 by Jonathan D. Halevi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Mahmoud Abbas' recent agreement with King Abdullah II reaffirms Jordanian jurisdiction over the Al-Aqsa compound but ignores Jordan's Palestinian dilemma.
The Retrospective
Friday, April 12, 2013 by A B. Yehoshua | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Do you no longer believe in a world of transcendence . . . so much so that you are mired in the mundane and the obvious?  For example, in the film Potatoes . . . your main characters eat lunch for 16 minutes." (Fiction)
Buried at Sea
Friday, April 12, 2013 by Owen Jarus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Discovered by a sonar survey in 2003, researchers have confirmed the existence of an ancient stone monument weighing 60,000 tons—underneath the Kinneret.
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.
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