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The Original Kosher JesusTuesday, January 24, 2012 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
150 years ago, Rabbi Elias Soloweyczk published commentaries on Matthew and Mark, aimed not at rejecting the Gospels but showing their concordance with the Talmud.The New Normal
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In spite of the Islamist ideology of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey may prove to be a key U.S. ally in the Middle East during the coming decades.
Siren SongsTuesday, January 24, 2012 by Shlomo Zuckier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"For your voice is sweet and your appearance pleasant" (Song of Songs 2:14). On the basis of this verse, Jewish law prohibits a man's listening to kol ishah, a woman's voice in song. Unlikely as it may seem, this prohibition has sparked a controversy that could shake the foundations of Israel's self-defense and self-definition.
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By combining a focus on the lost and endangered with attention to the local and a taste for the avant-garde, the Magnes Museum helped define an approach to Judaism that was deliberately decentered.Strange Land
Monday, January 23, 2012 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Couldn't the New York Times find a writer without heavy-duty psychological baggage to pen a travel feature on Israel? (Maybe not, but Matt Gross's article might still be a welcome narrative.) Dispatches from Madsville
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Howard Jacobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There's a perverseness in making the very word 'Holocaust' sacred when the thing it denotes was an outbreak of mass barbarism that most of us still find near impossible to comprehend.Dishonoring MLK
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Martin Luther King, Jr. was quite clear: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews." But one high school student has just won a writing award in King's name by slandering Israel. What is Modesty?
Monday, January 23, 2012 by Dov Linzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Talmud forbids a man from gazing sexually at even a woman's "smallest finger." Does it thus require women to cover their hands? No; it places the burden of self-control on men.
A Very English InstitutionMonday, January 23, 2012 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last week some 600 Jews converged on the hamlet of Kerhonkson in upstate New York for Limmud NY, a three-day "marketplace of Jewish ideas." Now in its eighth year, the volunteer-run Limmud NY is open to professional teachers and amateurs alike.
Friday, January 20, 2012 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Conservatives have often tried to convince the public that a new wave of Jewish Republicans was just around the corner. So far, they've only been disappointed—but should now watch the independents.