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The New Rosh Hashanah The New Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The Jewish New Year is characterized by an uneasy combination of stock-taking and solemn celebration.  Yom Ha’atzma’ut, as the birthday of the Jewish state, is beginning to acquire a similar character.
Aharei Mot-K’doshim: The Stranger, the Fatherless, and the Widow
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

How much of the harvest can you \"forget\" before you\'re allowed to go back and collect it instead of leaving it for the poor? (Click here for source sheet.) Download
Still Blaming the Jews
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Richard Wolin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

German Egyptologist Jan Assmann claims that Judaism disrupted the ancient Middle East by inventing "religious exclusivity"—and calls his theory "a historical analysis of anti-Semitism."
How Kabbalah Shaped Mormonism
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Tomer Persico | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Joseph Smith was versed in Christian commentaries on Kabbalah as a teenager, but it was from a Jew named Alexander Neibaur that he came to understand the "secret Jewish Bible."
Saving Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Dov S. Zakheim | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

After retiring as Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi in 2003, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron set out a plan to end the chief rabbinate's hegemonic control over marriage.  Now it is time to implement it. 
Does Vichy Live On?
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Robert O. Paxton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

France's wartime Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis, is often viewed as a historical aberration.  But a new book argues that Vichy shaped modern France.
With the Zionists in Gallipoli
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Having commanded both the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion during World War I, Colonel John Patterson spent the rest of his life fighting the British establishment for a Jewish homeland.
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