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Chabad 2.0
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by Shmuley Boteach | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For all its internationalism, the Lubavitch movement continues to evince a largely parochial mentality. It is global in scope but not in outlook.
Democracy and Hypocrisy
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by Israel Kasnett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Several bills being heatedly debated in the Knesset threaten the Left—but that doesn't mean they threaten democracy.
Jews and Black Baseball Jews and Black Baseball
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Prague has its Altneuschul and Rabbi Judah Loewe, who created the original Golem; Worms has its Raschi-Haus, where the great medieval scholar is said to have studied. And in America, St. Paul, Minnesota has its Temple of Aaron.
Vayeitzei: Jacob, Rembrandt, and the Rolling Stones
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

As Jacob prepared to bed down for the night at Beth El, he selected "among the rocks of the place" (me'avnei ha-makom; Genesis 28:11) to set by his head. He awoke in the morning having dreamt of a ladder reaching heavenwards and angels ascending and descending it.
Pinkwash?
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Critics of Israel say the state touts its gay-rights record only to conceal its oppression of Palestinians. Nonsense.
Turning on a Dime
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Four bronze coins offer the first archeological evidence that contrary to a widely held belief, at least part of the Second Temple (including the Western Wall) was built after Herod.
Rembrant and the Face of Jesus
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by Barbara Trainin Blank | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Using models from Amsterdam's Jewish quarter, the Dutch master created ethnically accurate—but artistically and philosophically radical—images of Jesus.
Breaking the Syria-Iran Axis
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by Yishai Fleisher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The greatest opportunity to curb Iran's ambitions is sitting on the world's doorstep.
Unless the Lord Guardeth the City . . .
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by Josh Nathan-Kazis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A volunteer security patrol has a beef with just about everyone in Brooklyn: the messianist yeshiva boys, a rival patrol, even the police. Still, the Shomrim are key players in the fight for the neighborhood.
Is Judaism a Religion? Is Judaism a Religion?
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

There is no end to the conundrums involved in defining what it means to be a Jew. Must a Jew be someone who believes in the Jewish religion, in the way a Christian believes in Christianity or a Muslim in Islam?  That can't be the case, since many devoted Jews are atheists.
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