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B’haalot’kha: Spiritual Authority in JudaismTuesday, June 7, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Is anything touchier in Judaism than the issue of authority? This week's Torah reading addresses the question of authority head on—and through the person of Moses himself. The answers are unlikely to please either Orthodoxy or Reform Judaism.
Before the LawTuesday, June 7, 2011 by Suzanne Last Stone and Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holiday of Shavuot, which falls this year on June 8 and 9, commemorates the giving of the Law. In video interviews conducted by the Israeli media agency Leadel, the prominent legal scholars Suzanne Last Stone and Alan M. Dershowitz explain the differences between Jewish law and Western law, and how their own interest in the former has informed their careers in the latter. —The Editors
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Tel Aviv, to judge from the location of the U.S. embassy. In lately re-emphasizing this refusal to acknowledge reality, President Obama has won the praise of the Palestinian Authority.Blocking Palestinian Statehood
Monday, June 6, 2011 by John Bolton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the General Assembly to recognize Palestinian "statehood" does not automatically mean UN membership, but it would be damaging nonetheless. Here's how it can be prevented.
The Forgotten FestivalMonday, June 6, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holiday of Shavuot, which begins this year on Tuesday evening, is the orphan among Jewish holidays; it is the forgotten festival. Let me count the ways.
Monday, June 6, 2011 by David Pryce-Jones | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new film stirringly dramatizes the German campaign to destroy the Jews of wartime France. That was then; today, journalists and others speak matter-of-factly of the destruction of Israel.Identity à la Carte
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A generation after the fall of Communism, Jews in Central Europe feel comfortable where they live; though concerned about anti-Semitism, they do not wish to move to Israel.A New Approach to the Holocaust
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ideology, charisma, conformism, hatred, greed, war: not one but all were critical factors in the manifold evil of the Nazi genocide, set in motion by both policy and politics.Should Britain’s Chief Rabbi be Elected?
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some are calling for an American-style campaign for the position, and are even proposing the names of U.S. candidates.Darkness on the West Bank
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A window onto the beleaguered and despised Jewish community of Hebron. (With photos)