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Homosexuality and Jewish LawFriday, March 19, 2010 by Michael J. Broyde and Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Orthodox community faces serious challenges to its integrity; the phenomenon of Orthodox homosexuals is not one of them.
Feast Your EyesFriday, March 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Early next week, an extraordinary private collection will go on display at New York's Yeshiva University Museum, before heading off in the fall to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The Braginsky Collection of illuminated manuscripts, ketubot, megillot, and printed volumes is not only visually ravishing but deeply instructive. The exhibit's many items created in Central Europe in the 15th-19th centuries demonstrate a vibrant visual culture in communities seldom thought of as hotbeds of cultural openness and artistic energy. They are complemented by beautiful objects produced by Sephardic communities from Amsterdam to India, and from Livorno, Italy, a major center of Jewish...
Friday, March 19, 2010 by Judith Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a development inimical to Israel, Saudi Arabia appears more worried about the threat to itself from Iran's proxies than about an Iranian nuclear bomb.Was the Last Supper a Seder?
Friday, March 19, 2010 by Jonathan Klawans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The evidence, or the lack of evidence, suggests it was not.Glorifying Murderers
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich, and Yossi Zur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dalal Mughrabi came to Israel to kill innocents, and succeeded; her name now graces a town square and a girls’ school in the Palestinian Authority. Germany and Israel
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Lars Haensel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fifty years ago, David Ben-Gurion sat down with Konrad Adenauer.From Yemen to Monsey
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Nicole Neroulias | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A band of impoverished Jews from a once-flourishing community prepares for its first Passover in America.The Prophet’s Wife
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A novel by Rabbi Milton Steinberg, left unfinished at his death in 1950, is finally being published.
Creed or People?Thursday, March 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Is Jewishness a matter of belief, or of belonging? The question, which agitates many Jews and non-Jews in today's multicultural world, is in fact very old—and it has been illuminated by recent scholarship into the relationships among Judaism, Christianity, and the religions and rulers of the later Roman Empire. The traditional image of Judaism as Christianity's parent has long given way to an image of two competing interpretations of ancient Israelite religion and its spiritual legacies. After the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., these two emergent religious communities, in all their permutations, would develop in the shadow of imperial Rome. How...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Gerald Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Would Jewish men be less depressed if they drank more?