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Getting Birthright WrongWednesday, July 6, 2011 by Philip Getz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In mid-June, The Nation magazine, which for decades has provided a special platform for Jewish critics of Zionism, published an article by a young alumna of Birthright Israel, the organization that since 1999 has sent 260,000 young Diaspora Jews (including this writer) on free ten-day tours of the Holy Land.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Ralph Gardner, and Jr. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the trail with the "adventure rabbi," seeking the divine in the great outdoors.Studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Jean Duhaime | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a collection of essays, scholars consider and reconsider their methods of understanding the ancient manuscripts and the world in which they were composed.Fallout from YIISA
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Ron Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thanks in part to complicity by Jewish faculty in Yale's shameful decision, the frank discussion of anti-Semitism is becoming verboten on American campuses. See also: Why are Liberals Silent?I Was a Teenage Zionist
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two teenage attendees of the same Zionist summer camp came away with radically different impressions and, as adults, have ended up in virtually opposite places. Music is My Religion
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Lea Penn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ravid Kahalani's eclectic style and soulful singing in Hebrew, Arabic, and sometimes Creole are helping to make his band Yemen Blues an international sensation.
Capital Crime. Capital Punishment?Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since its founding, the only person ever to be executed by the state of Israel has been the notorious Nazi, Adolf Eichmann. But the brutal murders of Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their young children this past March has the IDF weighing the possibility of seeking the death penalty for the Fogels' murderers.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The World Council of Churches, 590 million strong, has not a word to say about Islamists persecuting Arab Christians—but has declared the Jewish state a sin, and "resistance" to it a Christian duty.Jewish Democrats and Obama
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 2012 election, a 20-percent swing away from the President in the Jewish vote could make a big difference in key states like Pennsylvania and Florida.
Where Have All the Volunteers Gone?Friday, July 1, 2011 by Leslie Lenkowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the 1990's, the Harvard social scientist Robert D. Putnam triggered national hand-wringing over his book Bowling Alone, which showed plummeting rates of voluntary and charitable activities among Americans, a people known since de Tocqueville's day as the world's most public-minded citizenry.
