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Tree of Life
Friday, April 2, 2010 by Matthew Duda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A Los Angeles Catholic on his years of studying Torah, verse by verse, in Dennis Prager's transporting weekly classes.
Soul Music
Friday, April 2, 2010 by Ofer Aderet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The singer Yasmin Levy has been leading an astonishing revival of Ladino culture.
Lady Gaga vs. Middle East Peace
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's settlements, the bugbear of both the Obama administration and Pat Buchanan, account for but a fraction of jihadist rage.
Radical Judaism
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by David Wolpe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In his latest book, the theologian Arthur Green argues that there is no Jewish chosenness since there is no Chooser, and that left-wing politics is a spiritual imperative.
Israel by Design
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Felix Burrichter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Among the country's abundant landmarks of architecture and design, a newly opened museum in Holon may be the most dramatic.
Sabbath Joy Down South
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Emily Wagster Pettus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A circuit-riding rabbi serves tiny Jewish communities in thirteen states across the American South.
What a Divided Jerusalem Would Look Like
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by David M. Weinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Instead of bringing peace, partitioning the city will destroy it.
Anti-Semitism and the Recession
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Notably, and unlike in earlier times, America's current economic troubles are not being blamed on "the Jews."
A Life with God
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jay Lefkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Judaism: A Way of Being, David Gelernter shows, in words and images, how Jewish experience echoes through and across all of Western experience.
Unsplitting the (Song of the) Sea
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two long-separated fragments from a rare 8th-century Torah scroll are on dramatic display at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book.