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Monday, May 21, 2012 by Yoel Finkelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
First, the bad news: Sexual, physical, and emotional abuse occurs in Orthodox Jewish communities. Next, the worse news: Two recent New York Times stories are just the latest piece of evidence that Orthodox communities are often in denial and worse.
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's 1967 conquest of the Old City, as celebrated yesterday, has become part of the religious Zionist narrative. But whether or not it was divinely preordained, it was never planned by Rabin.Returning to Tunisia
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When last year's Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Djerba was cancelled, many doubted the future of Tunisia's Jews. But the new Islamist government just passed a test of religious freedom.With Friends Like These
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the prevalence of overt anti-Zionism across Europe is notorious, it is less well known that even Europeans who claim to be pro-Israel are invariably hostile to the Jewish state.Did Muhammad Exist?
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As revisionist scholarship claims that Muhammad was not the founder of a new religion but an anti-Trinitarian rebel Christian leader, Islam is headed for a confrontation with higher criticism.Sacha Baron Cohen Never Forgets
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Steve Sailer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The comedian's four main characters have been parodies of present or past foes of the Jews. At this rate, he might even get around to making a movie mocking the Amalekites.No Quarter
Monday, May 21, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For its two million tourists, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City is the historical and spiritual center of Judaism. But the only Jews who lived there before 1948 were those too poor to leave.E-vil?
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ultra-Orthodox rally against the Internet is not merely about pornography. It's about Facebook, filters, accountability, and the maintenance of rabbinic authority. And then it is also about pornography.

Friday, May 18, 2012 by William Meyers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Mindla Diament was a beautiful woman. We know that from the portrait her older sister Julia Pirotte took of her in Marseille in 1942. In Julia's picture Mindla's face emerges from darkness, classically Semitic, with large eyes, a full mouth, slender neck, and imposing spiritual depth.
Friday, May 18, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Below Jerusalem's Old City, a Freemason "laid my pocket Bible atop the stone in the middle of the cave and three candles around it which shower light . . ."