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Banning CircumcisionThursday, June 2, 2011 by Yitzchok Adlerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Efforts to criminalize circumcision are an attack not on Jews but on religion, opposition to which is growing more militant even in religion-friendly America.Mind Your Own Business
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 1887 complaint in the London Jewish Chronicle about the "theatricality" of American Reform ordinations draws a rebuke and a put-down by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.Needed: A Real Freedom Flotilla
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the anti-Israel season heats up, another people in the eastern Mediterranean—the Syrians—are in desperate need of "freedom activists." Or is freedom not what the flotillas are about?
The Jewish Way in WarWednesday, June 1, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How can democracies, acting under the conventions of international law, defeat Islamist terrorists operating by their own benighted rules? How, especially when UN member-states are prepared to enable terrorists by perverting the rules of war and human rights?
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Far beneath the bustling streets of old Jerusalem lies an ancient—a very ancient—Jewish city.Music in the Kingdom of Death
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Formally launching this week is a website featuring more than 100 recordings and more than 300 articles devoted to Jewish music composed and performed during the Holocaust.Toward the Multiplex Shul
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Reuven Spolter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More and more congregants prefer to pray in more intimate surroundings and for shorter periods of time; herewith, a modest proposal for their (increasingly abandoned) rabbis.
The Anthropology of AIPACTuesday, May 31, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few events in contemporary American Jewish life generate as much passion as the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), held in Washington this year on May 22-24. The best way to view the over 10,000 conference participants may be in terms of a tribe or small society.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Missing from the Netanyahu-Obama drama in Washington was Mahmoud Abbas, the man who really torpedoed the peace process.Two Sisters
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Comparing Jacqueline and Gillian Rose, the former a vociferous and overrated campaigner against Israel, the latter a formidable and underrated figure in Jewish and Christian thought.
