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Where Are the Twelve Tribes Buried?Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A pair of scholars is convinced that they have found the graves of Jacob's children.Books and Their Fates
Monday, December 27, 2010 by David Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What will happen to the world's most important private collection of Jewish manuscripts and books now that it has been sold to an unknown buyer?A Great Thaw
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across the expanses of Siberia, Jewish communities are experiencing a rebirth after the deep freeze of Soviet rule.Where Time Ends
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Matthew Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Megiddo—Armageddon—will a new archeological project enable scholars to synchronize the clocks of the ancient world and create the first definitive calendar of human history?Shabbat Upgrade
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Shoshana Chen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "kosher lamp" is only one of a series of mass-marketed technological innovations for Sabbath-observant homes.
Law and Morality
Are ethics and law at odds? Does the law define what is ethical, or do ethical concerns have their own purchase on the law? These questions, universally applicable, have special relevance to a religious culture like Judaism, whose traditional law is embodied in the vast corpus of halakhah.
Whom has Holocaust Education Educated?Monday, December 27, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Are ethics and law at odds? Does the law define what is ethical, or do ethical concerns have their own purchase on the law? These questions, universally applicable, have special relevance to a religious culture like Judaism, whose traditional law is embodied in the vast corpus of halakhah.
Monday, December 27, 2010 by Sam Schulman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Far from denying the Holocaust, the anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic Left has fetishized it, seizing upon its supposed "lessons" as a weapon to vilify Israel and the West.
The Sound of (Classical) Music
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 75th anniversary this season, a milestone in a triumphant history linked with the names of famous conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, and Zubin Mehta. But it faces rough sailing ahead.
Preserving the HeritageFriday, December 24, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 75th anniversary this season, a milestone in a triumphant history linked with the names of famous conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, and Zubin Mehta. But it faces rough sailing ahead.
Friday, December 24, 2010 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sixteen structures and places in need of preservation have been added to the list of Israel's national-heritage sites, raising a predictable protest in some foreign media.Think Bigger
Friday, December 24, 2010 by Leonard Saxe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to the latest study of the American Jewish population, the numbers have not been declining but increasing since 1990, and are significantly higher than previously estimated.