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“Einstein’s Jewish Science”Tuesday, August 7, 2012 by George Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did the physicist’s Jewishness give him an edge in discovering relativity?
I. B. Singer’s Last LaughMonday, August 6, 2012 by David G. Roskies | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Like millions of his fellow immigrants to America, Isaac Bashevis Singer started over. In the beginning, he was a deadly serious Polish-Yiddish writer with world-literary ambitions.
Monday, August 6, 2012 by Robert Rozett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A century after his birth, we must remember Raoul Wallenberg as “the example par excellence of the standard of humane behavior to which the Western world aspires.”Are Concubines Now Kosher?
Monday, August 6, 2012 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The chief judge of Jerusalem’s rabbinical court ruled that a man may take a concubine if his wife is unable or unwilling to bear children, and unwilling to divorce him.The Wild West Bank
Monday, August 6, 2012 by Andrew Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When Avri Ran arrived in 1998, Givot Olam was a barren hilltop. Now it is the site of one of Israel’s largest organic farms—and one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the West Bank. How London’s Jews Measure Up
Monday, August 6, 2012 by Rachel Kolsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1908, when London hosted its first Olympic Games, the city had 70 synagogues. Today it boasts 170, but one is still prompted to ask: Has the community come full circle? Skeletons and Scandals
Monday, August 6, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who were the thousands of people whose skeletons were found in a cave on the Temple Mount? Were they victims of a Second Temple-era massacre or simply corpses buried in a Byzantine gravesite?