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“Frum” Week
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Emily Langowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For seven days, a Yale senior raised in the Reform movement alters her dress, her habits, and her ritual behavior to try out "a different way of connecting to God."
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot!
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As his letters to colleagues and friends reveal, the anti-Semitic impulses of the great poet were deep, but varied in intensity and consistency according to circumstances.
Second Exile
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Lucette Lagnado | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt had no room for Jews. Longing for change, and even for return, the daughter of a family who fled in 1963 sees her hopes dashed.
Fighting Campus anti-Semitism
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Manfred Gerstenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Academics have led the international delegitimization campaign against Israel; with the help of the law, academics and others are leading the fight against it.  
Bible Translations: From Bad to Worse
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Joel Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In twenty minutes, learn why every English translation of the Bible is unfaithful to the text. (Video)  
Egypt’s Israel Obsession
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Egyptians hate Israel for their own reasons, which have nothing to do with the Palestinian cause.
Why I Love “Why we Pray”
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Matthue Roth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Choosing just six prayers and treating them in depth, Rabbi Barry Freundel has written today's best-conceived and most fully-realized guide to the Jewish liturgy.  
Losing the Jewish Vote?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Dan Senor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Insofar as President Obama has a problem with Jewish voters, it is a problem not of "messaging" but of substance.
Does the West Still Believe in Itself?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Shared moral codes—covenants—create renewable energy and have the power to arrest the decline and fall of nations. The challenge of 9/11 is whether the West can re-moralize itself.
Meet the American Shul
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Emily Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Everything you ever wanted to know about the history, the mores, and the character of "the most significant institution in the life of [American] Jews."