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What Is Free Will?Monday, March 18, 2013 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For millennia, philosophers have attempted to prove or disprove the existence of free will. Ludwig Wittgenstein saw this as a misguided exercise—which obscures a genuine moral issue.
Monday, March 18, 2013 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A peace deal negotiated between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas would be opposed by Hamas, the Palestinian people, and even parts of the Palestinian Authority.Under Saint Patrick’s Protection
Monday, March 18, 2013 by Pamela R. Winnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ireland remains one of the few countries in Europe in which Jews have never been persecuted en masse, prevented from worshipping, or forbidden from holding public office.Judaism without Theology
Monday, March 18, 2013 by Levi Brackman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The lack of a theology, beyond a generic belief in one God, is, to me, part of the beauty of biblical and talmudic Judaism.”Patriarchs on the Couch
Monday, March 18, 2013 by Leonard Greenspoon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Attempts to subject biblical characters to modern psychoanalysis, which have branded Abraham, Moses, and Samson psychotic, reflect “reckless disregard for millennia of careful exegesis.”Divided by Faith
Monday, March 18, 2013 by David J. Davis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Where modern tolerance does not permit any rival to the authority of rationalism and secular humanism, pre-Enlightenment Europe was establishing policies that permitted worldviews which its rulers saw as heretical.”