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A Disturbing Trend?Monday, June 28, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hammered by government propaganda describing him as an Israeli agent, and abandoned by Washington, a Malaysian opposition leader has started complaining of "Zionist aggression."
ConstitutionsMonday, June 28, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the issues brought to the fore by the recent crisis in Israel over ultra-Orthodox (haredi) schools is the unresolved role of the state's judiciary. Israel has no written constitution. To some, the absence invites disaster. To others, it is what holds Israel together as a Jewish and democratic state.
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Noah Feldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
America's founding elite put into action an ideal of meritocracy that ended its own exclusive privilege.Something’s Rotten In Brussels
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An EU proposal to re-label kosher meat smacks of common prejudice.Progressive? Then Don’t Boycott Israel
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Ben S. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Western Left is championing a movement whose aim is not to effect a change in policy but to dismantle the Jewish state.On Iran, a Sham Realism
Friday, June 25, 2010 by Leon Wieseltier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Advanced American liberals, exemplified by the President and the columnist Fareed Zakaria, have perversely forsworn democracy as a central objective of U.S. foreign policy.The Lieberman Plan
Friday, June 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's foreign minister has issued a detailed blueprint for the creation of two "largely homogenous states."Saying it in Ivrit
Friday, June 25, 2010 by Jennifer Medina | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a Brooklyn charter school, where one-third of the students are not Jewish, all subjects are taught in English and Hebrew.
Gilad ShalitFriday, June 25, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Today marks four years since Palestinian infiltrators tunneled their way from Gaza into Israel, opening fire on an open-hatched tank, killing two IDF soldiers, and taking the third, Gilad Shalit, prisoner. Before long, Hamas announced it was prepared to exchange Shalit for 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners held by Israel. Then-premier Ehud Olmert declared that Jerusalem would not give in to blackmail. "We will hold no negotiations over the release of prisoners." That was then.
Friday, June 25, 2010 by Yael Lavie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A formerly bar-hopping London paparazzo has put together a dazzling photographic exhibit of religious Jews.
