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Don’t Make BDS a ReligionWednesday, December 21, 2011 by Lisa Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
This speech by Amira Hass, a prominent Israeli journalist of the left—and its presentation by an Israeli website—show how the anti-Israel boycott debate has been affected by Israeli law. (Video)Jewish Jamaica, Then and Now
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by Paul Foer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews have been in Jamaica for centuries, and a Kingston congregation has just engaged its first full-time rabbi in 40 years. He'll do services, classes, and conversions. He's also a scuba diver.
The First War of National LiberationWednesday, December 21, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This is the 2,179th anniversary of the world's first war of national liberation. There have been many since. To a surprising extent, such wars have followed the pattern first established by the Maccabees. They, like later heads of independence movements, were leaders of a people conquered and occupied by a great empire.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
How to make sense of Joseph? This week we learn of his nearly pathological efforts to ensnare, baffle, accuse, imprison, and shame his brothers—the same brothers who, decades earlier, sold him into slavery. Now he is Grand Vizier of Egypt, and he gets a chance to show them who's boss.What Makes a Jew a Terrorist?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Sheera Frenkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An IDF spokesman says he wouldn't fire on Jewish rock-throwers. Ehud Barak calls them terrorists. Israel faces the tension between universalistic principles of justice and its highly particular circumstances.
In Search of the Moderate VoiceTuesday, December 20, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Rabbi Haim Sabato is a unique figure on the Israeli scene, both head of a yeshiva and a prominent Hebrew writer. His best known work, the novel titled Adjusting Sights, won Israel's most prestigious literary award and was made into a movie.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Yoav Sivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The New York Times says Israel uses its gay-friendliness as propaganda. A member of the "independent gay Israel lobby" says the Times gives the government too much credit. What If the Syrians Had Still Been Here?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Michael Young | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Many dismiss the intifada that expelled Syrian troops from Lebanon in 2005. But Assad would be doing better at crushing the Syrian opposition today had he not lost Lebanon then. Europe’s Jews Need This Union
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Jonathan Freedland | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The European Union was meant to stifle German hyper-nationalism, but today it has Germany marking all of Europe's fiscal homework. Britain's Jews are nervous.A Jewish Woman Calls for Change
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Paul Vitello | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The scholarly work of the late Paula Hyman, who was once dean at the Jewish Theological Seminary, was informed by "sometimes conflicting bonds: to Judaism and to feminism."
