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Churchill and State
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Lital Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Nearly 50 years after Winston Churchill's death, Israelis have founded a society in the British wartime leader's name and GOP politicians are pledging to restore his bust to the Oval Office.
Two Palestines, Complete Two Palestines, Complete
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Some saw history in the making. With jubilation and fanfare Fatah and Hamas agreed last spring in Cairo to form an interim technocratic administration, hold parliamentary and presidential elections by May 2012 and, ultimately, to establish a national unity government.
The Second Sex’s Third Blessing
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Aryeh A. Frimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A fifteenth-century prayer book replaces a problematic traditional blessing with a pro-woman variant.  So what?      
Lay That Pistol Down
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The world has never accepted Zionism's militarization of the Jew, and the creation of the psychologically transformative homo israelianus.
The Adoption Solution
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Shmuly Yanklowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From Moses to Mordechai to the midrashic dictum that "he who brings up a child is to be called its father," Jewish tradition is firmly pro-adoption.
Pork and Prejudice
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Shmarya Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As the smell of roasting pork is disconcertingly similar to the smell of burning human flesh, is the Jewish prohibition on eating pig rooted in the abhorrence of human sacrifice?
Shrine Online
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Sohrab Ahmari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Unable to restore a shrine with a prominent Star of David in Iran, a U.S. organization and an Iranian-American architect are reviving the site in cyberspace.
UN-occupied
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Hillel C. Neuer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Now that even Hamas accepts that Gaza is not occupied territory, why does the UN persist in claiming that it is?
All (and That Means All) Aboard
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It's years overdue, billions over budget, and with a route of debatable efficiency, but Jerusalem's light rail system may yet prove that coexistence is possible.
Minority Report
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The identity of Middle Eastern Christians has been shaped more by linguistic and cultural Arabization than it has by a simple desire to avoid persecution.