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Declaring DeathThursday, October 6, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 1960's, Israeli doctors began aggressively promoting the view that declaration of death was a purely medical matter. But it wasn't easy to enlist rabbis in their cause.
Who Owns Maimonides?Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Joshua Halberstam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Abraham Joshua Heschel once suggested that if one didn't know that "Maimonides" was a person, one would assume it was the name of a university. Heschel was referring to the monumental breadth and influence of the 12th-century philosopher's work.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even Sari Nusseibeh, the worldly and well-respected intellectual and peace activist, cannot bring himself to accept the reality of Israel as the Jewish state.Holocaust Kitsch
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1967 opera set in Auschwitz, unperformed until a year ago, is tawdry in its plot, derivative in its music, and of doubtful integrity in its purposes.The Fast of Fasts
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In rabbinic times, when a Jew spoke of "the fast," there was no need to be more specific—as even a passage in the New Testament interestingly attests.On Holyland Hill
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Four thousand years ago, what is today the site of a housing project on the outskirts of Jerusalem was a Bronze Age graveyard serving the villages in the valley below.