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Together We StandThursday, March 22, 2012 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the wake of the murders in Toulouse, all of France must stand united against anti-Semitism, which is an attack on the republican ideals which all of France holds dear.
Marching to JerusalemThursday, March 22, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts—all these nonviolent techniques have been employed in support of the Palestinian cause, but violence has remained at the core of the enterprise. For decades, well-meaning people have suggested that a wholehearted embrace of nonviolence would do more for the Palestinians than their continuing resort to terrorism.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Muhammad Merah, who has confessed to perpetrating the murders in Toulouse, appears to be a member of Fursan al-'Izza, the French branch of Al-Qaeda, profiled here.Europe’s Rising Tide
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Classical anti-Semitic attitudes are not only widespread across Europe but have risen significantly since 2009 in traditionally more tolerant countries, such as Britain and France.Toeing the Church-State Line
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Julie Wiener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hebrew charter schools offer the chance to educate large numbers of American Jewish children in Hebrew and Israeli culture—at taxpayers' expense—and thus are making many inside and outside the Jewish world nervous.Turning the Other Tank
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Eric Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Stanley Hauerwas argues that being a Christian means never killing others in war. If this is Christianity, then Christianity is a form of eschatological madness.False Memories of the Crusader States
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Peter Frankopan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Take heed, Israel: where things went wrong for the Crusaders was not in the long-distance messaging to core supporters, but in the muddling of that message among neighbors and near-neighbors. Found in Israel
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Avigayil Kadesh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every day, the Israel Antiquities Authority has 30 active archeological digs. Here, a list of the past 25 years' most notable. (With a glaring omission.)
Varieties of Post-Religious ExperienceWednesday, March 21, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel is, on top of everything else, a gigantic open-air laboratory for experiments in Judaism and Jewish identity, mixing and matching old and new forms, deliberately and on the fly. One of the more interesting recent specimens is Religiozionisticus Postreligious.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the funeral of the four victims of the Toulouse shooting, Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin said that those who terrorize Jews "do not distinguish between Jews in Israel or in France . . . They know very well that we are all brothers."