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Censorship as Tolerance
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Jacob Mchangama | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Europe's hate-speech codes are a clear and present danger to the freedom of expression that citizenship requires.
Just One Word: Plastics
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Dagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On some kibbutzim, capitalist ends are served by socialist means.
The Other Talmud The Other Talmud
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

A Jewish classic known as much for its obscurity as for its great significance took another step into the light this spring with the online publication of its oldest and most reliable version. The classic is the Jerusalem Talmud, and the version is a parchment manuscript, known as the Leiden manuscript, written in 1289 by a Jewish scholar and copyist in Rome.
Ugaritic, Unriddled
Friday, July 16, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An ancient Semitic language has been re-deciphered in record time by MIT computers, creating a bonanza for biblical studies.
Sticking It to Jerusalem
Friday, July 16, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, has published a multi-article series that is outrageously biased against the Jewish state.
UNIFIL: Peacekeepers or Enablers? UNIFIL: Peacekeepers or Enablers?
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The response of the civilized world to events in southern Lebanon—where Hizballah, in preparation for its next act of aggression, is reportedly digging tunnels at the border with northern Israel—is doubly revealing. It says much about the non-enforcement of international law in an area dominated by Islamist irregular forces. And it is a reliable indicator of what might happen if, in the event of an agreement between the Palestinian leadership and Israel, international peacekeepers were to be stationed in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel through European Eyes
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Yoram Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why do so many educated Westerners view the Jewish state not as the answer to Auschwitz but as, itself, a hateful variant of Nazism? And what is to be done about this?
China’s Jewish Connection
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Miron Rezun | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A historical kinship exists between Jews and Chinese, if not between China and the Jewish state.
Harper Lee and Sam Levy
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On its fiftieth anniversary, To Kill a Mockingbird is being subjected to second-wave criticism, including for its treatment of southern Jews.
Sacred Ground?
Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Emmanuel Navon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Western Wall is a Muslim holy site, and other fabrications.
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