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An Instructive Stalemate?Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The impasse over Israel's conversion bill presents a unique opportunity for debate, discussion, and even, one hopes, the discovery of common ground.Le Train de Vie
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Sammy Loren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An eccentric Parisian restaurateur hosts a thriving Ashkenazi music scene.
The Conversion ConundrumMonday, July 26, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Late last week, narrowly averting a looming crisis within world Jewry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a postponement, possibly indefinite, of prospective Knesset legislation making the Chief Rabbinate the arbiter of conversion in the Jewish state and thus of who may be eligible for citizenship under Israel's foundational Law of Return. The measure has stirred impassioned debate in and between Israel and the Diaspora, much of it a depressing if also revealing exercise in talking past each other.
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The German jurist appointed to follow up on the Goldstone Report worked for the PLO in the 1990's and has condemned Israeli targeted killings as "very much" in the direction of state terrorism.“I Am an Israeli”
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Jennifer Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why John Hagee's Christians United for Israel is the fastest-growing Israel support group in America.Fellow Travelers
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Toby Tabachnik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "Noahide" organization has launched a website to connect Gentiles drawn to Judaism but not ready to convert.Matisyahu Made Me Cry
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Hampton Stevens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hasidic reggae reduces a critic to tears.The Kindness of (Israeli) Strangers
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arabs are rightly known for hospitality, but Israelis, contrary to their bluff stereotype, are no slouches.Judaism, Da
Friday, July 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some two decades after the last big wave of Soviet immigration, young Russian-speaking Israelis have gathered in Jerusalem for an intensive three-day program of Jewish study.The Egyptian Dilemma
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a post-Mubarak world, will the Obama White House opt for regime stability, or for reform and change? As the Bush administration discovered, either way is fraught with peril.
