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LDS POTUS?Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nine rabbis from different walks of life reflect on what a Mormon president might mean to Jews.Refugees and Resolutions
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Lyn Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is afraid to champion restitution for Jews expelled from Arab countries because of the assumed link to the Palestinian refugee issue.
Songs and PsalmsWednesday, May 2, 2012 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After 17 years in Israel, our family has temporarily relocated to Brooklyn. For a week after we arrived, our pious Jewish neighbors ignored us. Then, on Shabbat, three of them finally approached us, one after another—to tell us that the neighborhood eruv we were using really didn't exist and that we were profaning the Sabbath.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In assessing the Iranian nuclear threat, we should listen to the current head of Israel's military rather than out-of-the-loop retired generals.The Patriarch
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Michal Shmulovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Benzion Netanyahu will go down in history as a pathbreaking scholar and political activist, Israel's prime minister will remember the father who braved a snowstorm rather than let his son go to bed hungry.Trailing the Magic Bullet
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Josh Feinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Permission to treat Christians, entrance quotas, scientific heroes, magic cures, and nursing campaigns: a new exhibit explores the glorious, scandalous history of Jews and modern medicine. (Slideshow)Lions and Angels
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Adin Steinsaltz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the legendary rabbinic scholar, who was raised in a secular household, become religious? "It was almost spontaneous." (Video)In Defense of Jewish Nationalism
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Robert Wolfe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Jewish national movement is now composed of religious nationalists, secular nationalists, and Jewish loyalists. What it lacks is a conception of Jewish nationalism that can appeal to non-Jews.
Find, Fix, FinishTuesday, May 1, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What is the threat? Al-Qaeda? "Terrorism"? "Violent religious extremism"? Israeli analysts call it "global jihad," but U.S. leadership has carefully circumscribed it as "al-Qaeda" or, even more narrowly, personified it as Osama bin Laden and his minions, hijackers of planes and Islam.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Greg Carey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jesus seems to have habitually transgressed the Torah, which the New Testament claims he abolished outright. So why do historians conclude that Jesus lived as a Torah-observant Jew?
