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The Chief RabbinateMonday, June 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On May 23, Israel's chief rabbinate issued new regulations requiring prospective couples whose parents had been married by someone other than a rabbinate-approved rabbi to apply, along with their mothers, for a full inquiry into their Jewishness. The regulations provide for inquiries into the Jewishness of other couples as well. In the meantime, making deft use of its authority over conversions to Judaism, the rabbinate has acted to delegitimize other rabbis, in particular from the Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist movements, as a whole. Founded as a body that would help unify the modern Jewish state, the rabbinate (Hebrew: rabbanut) has...
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Shoshana London Sappir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 18th-century Suriname synagogue joins similar structures from Germany, Italy, and India now on display at the Israel Museum.Down Kingston Way
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thousands of Jamaicans have Jewish roots, but most have long ceased to identify themselves as Jews and a community dating back 350 years is moribund.One People, After All?
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Sharon Begley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new scientific paper, a team of geneticists report that the Jews of the Diaspora share telltale genetic markers suggestive of a common ancestry.
Chaim Grade’s QuarrelFriday, June 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Mir vet men nit maspid zeyn... No one will eulogize me... The death several weeks ago of a reclusive, elderly widow in New York has raised hopes that, at long last, scholars and lovers of Yiddish will have access to the buried treasures in her apartment. These are the legacy—manuscripts, papers, works waiting for translation—of her husband, one of the greatest Jewish writers of modern times.
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Charles Krauthammer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The point of the anti-Israel campaign is to deprive the Jewish state of any legitimate form of defense, including the most passive.Iran, Turkey, Israel
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Hassan Haidar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In their competition for regional dominance, Tehran and Ankara are separately attempting to subjugate Israel and hasten America's withdrawal from the Middle East; will they succeed?Bad Moon Rising
Friday, June 4, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For one more sign of the failure of American Middle East policy, see Ankara's increasingly vigorous identification with and sponsorship of the Islamic "resistance."What Israel’s Friends Need to Remember
Friday, June 4, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever Israel's military may have done poorly, it did not do wrong.A Messianic Mystic
Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Hartley Lachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newly translated essays by the scholar Isaiah Tishby introduces one of the most fascinating personalities and important thinkers of 18th-century Italian Jewry. (PDF)