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Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ships and their comings and goings have lately been a fixation over at Haaretz, Israel's chief left-wing newspaper. One of the paper's advocacy journalists has been writing enthusiastically about joining up with a pro-Palestinian flotilla that intends to smash Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Robert Wistrich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The controversy over a cancelled research program at Yale raises the question of why the academic study of anti-Semitism has come so late to the U.S.In Jerusalem, with Shyne
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Rachel Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Notes from a visit to Israel—including a sighting of the rapper Jamal Michael Barrow, now Moses Michael Levi, in black hat, beard, and sidecurls.The Welfare of Animals
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Spengler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the Dutch parliament debates a bill to ban kosher slaughter, it is well to bear in mind that the practice is mandated in order to prevent animal suffering—as indeed it does.“The Center of the Whole World”
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Noam Dvir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 16th-century German collection of maps includes a rendering of Jerusalem, a city "whose size and splendor marvels the imagination."Toward the Promised Land
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Later this year, over 7,000 members of the Bnei Menashe community, which claims descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes, are preparing to emigrate from northeast India to Israel.Include Us In
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Lucy Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
England's Jewish twenty-somethings may not be found in the community's long-established institutions, religious or secular, but there is nothing apathetic about their engagement with Judaism.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the history of the American Left, Jews have been disproportionately represented—disproportionately, that is, relative to their share of the American population. At the extremes, they have also been active participants in what has sentimentally been called the "romance" of American Communism.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This week's reading contains an apparently straightforward episode that is in fact one of the most mysterious in the Bible. When the Israelites find themselves without water, they become quarrelsome. Moses is commanded by God to "speak to the rock and let it produce its water" (Numbers 20:8).For Israelis, a Two-Day Weekend?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 by William Kolbrener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In addition to synchronizing Israeli businesses with the world's markets, an American-style Sunday might allow for a welcome catching of the collective breath.