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Jonathan Pollard’s Legacy
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At this point, freeing the imprisoned spy would harm no one, but there is no underestimating the damage he and his Israeli handlers did to American Jewry.
Church, State, and American Jews
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A community zealously separationist in principle has time and again found itself blurring the line when it comes to interfaith relations, ensuring a stable supply of kosher food products, and various ritual practices.
The Zionist Imperative
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Marla Braverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Solidarity, a grand leitmotif of Jewish history, is today not a matter of choice; where, in particular, support for the state of Israel is concerned, it is a matter of necessity.
Biblical Seductions
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the hands of a sexual-harassment attorney, six key narratives in the Bible receive a bold and creative interpretation.
A Matter of Sovereignty
Monday, March 7, 2011 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A well-meaning proposal to break the monopoly of the chief rabbinate over conversions runs the risk of delegating authority in issues of Israeli law to non-Israelis. (For a response, see here.)
The Odessa File The Odessa File
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Undoubtedly the most searing image of the port city of Odessa on the Black Sea is Sergei Eisenstein's reconstruction of a bloody massacre on its famed "Potemkin Steps" in his epic silent film, Battleship Potemkin (1925).
Architect of Joy
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Contravening the dictates of modernism, the "super-shlock" work of Morris Lapidus was designed to make people happy—and it does.
Qaddafi’s Toads
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The top ten international enablers who gave gratuitous aid and comfort to Libya's murderous psychopath.
A Jewish Moment of Truth
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon and Hadassah Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The adaptation of religious law (halakhah) to the needs of exile preserved the Jews for 2,000 years; why can't Judaism rise to the challenge of a sovereign state?
Facebook War over Qatar
Friday, March 4, 2011 by L. Barkan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the social-media site, a vociferous campaign calls for revolution against the regime of the Emir, a "traitorous agent of the Jews."