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Party of Fraud
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Matthew Levitt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Is it not time to expose Hizballah for what it is—no standard-bearer of "resistance" in Lebanon but a worldwide criminal gang—and to prosecute it as such?
Crying Fascism
Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israeli democracy is weighed down by the attitudes of some Russian immigrants to freedom of expression; but warnings of creeping fascism are misplaced, and never more so than today.
Minorities in the IDF Minorities in the IDF
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Recently, while driving by the Israeli settlement of Nokdim (where Avigdor Lieberman lives), I picked up a hitchhiking soldier. We started chatting, and I asked the soldier his name. "Mustafa," he said. "You're a Muslim?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, "from Haifa."
Gas Attack
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Ariel Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Only now that Israel has identified substantial underwater gas reserves is Hizballah making an issue of maritime borders. Is it, perchance, spoiling for a fight?
Six Myths about Anders Behring Breivik
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Daniel Greenfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Norwegian murderer's own words make clear what he was not—for example, neither a fundamentalist Christian nor pro-Israel—as well as what he was.
Succeeding Lord Sacks
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Daniel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Britain's next Chief Rabbi will be Orthodox—needless to say. But is it too much to hope that, like Jonathan Sacks, he will also command the respect not only of other Jews but of Britons in general?  
Mas’ei: Tz’lafhad’s Daughters and Hamlet
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

This week's reading, Mas'ei, closes out the book of Numbers. It is named for the travels (masa'ot) of the Israelites during their approximately four-decade sojourn in the wilderness.
The Peoplehood Fallacy
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by David Breakstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What the new communal emphasis on Jewish peoplehood misses: yes, Jews are a people—but only by virtue of their connectedness to the Jewish faith and to the land of Israel.
Zooming in on Israel
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Omri Ceren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Think that lately the American media have become obsessed with the Jewish state? A new academic study shows that the obsession goes all the way back to 1950.
The State of the Arab State The State of the Arab State
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

From the Mashriq to the Maghreb, one end of the Arab world to the other, people are contemplating where the six-month-long upheavals that began with the Arab Spring are fated to deliver them. Those with longer memories may recall an earlier experiment at reshaping the political contours of Arab governance.