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Thursday, 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.Nowruz Peres?
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Shimon Peres | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the Iranian new year, Israel's president appealed to the Iranian people to oppose the bellicose ambitions of their government, and warned them of the consequences if they do not. (Video)

Wednesday, 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." Crowdsourcing the Constitution
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"We the People" indeed—a new commentary on the U.S. Constitution draws its inspiration from an unlikely source.Vayikra: Beginning in the Middle
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik Who reads what when? This week we're beginning to read the book of Leviticus. But in the podcast we'll look at a rabbi who walked into a synagogue and found the reading beginning in a surprising place—and we'll see what light that sheds on the tradition of reading the Torah. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:38Turning 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.