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All in the MindMonday, January 18, 2010 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thought-controlled technology creates new challenges for Jewish law.L’Affaire Ayalon
Monday, January 18, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Turkish anti-Semitism meets an inept Israeli diplomat; nobody wins.Post-Orthodoxy?
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Growing "left" dissatisfactions within the Modern Orthodox world may portend the formation of a new movement.First, Blame the Jews
Monday, January 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a distinguished Christian theologian and scholar of the Bible, the root problem in the Middle East is simple: "Israel's conviction [of] being God's one chosen people."
Soul FoodMonday, January 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A widely-circulated article points to the growing popularity of kosher food among non-Jews in the United States. In Europe, meanwhile, the campaign for animal welfare has revived old charges of Jewish carnality, and a number of countries have gone so far as to ban kosher slaughtering. Articulating both the meaning of kashrut and its many regulations has challenged Jewish thinkers, Maimonides among them, for millennia. Today, some Jews find in the tradition's dietary discipline an inspiration for a contemporary ethics of consumption. Others promote, alongside traditional strictures, a system of ethical certifications of kosher products. In the end, though, kashrut may...
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Gidi Grinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The international effort to isolate and delegitimize Israel poses as great a strategic threat as the effort to destroy it militarily, and requires no less effective a strategic response.
The Courage of the OrdinaryFriday, January 15, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Leah Goldberg, whose tender, compelling voice created its own register in modern Hebrew literature, died forty years ago today. The anniversary is being marked in Israeli newspapers and by the radio stations that for years have broadcast the music made of her poems. Born into a Lithuanian Jewish family in 1911, she arrived in Tel Aviv in 1935; in 1952, she moved to Jerusalem, where she lived and taught until her death in 1970. Astoundingly prolific, she published—on top of ten collections of poetry—novels, plays, criticism, children's books, and diaries, and translated into Hebrew from seven different languages. A number of her unpublished works have...
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Robust international law is in Israel's interest, but not when its institutions are run by despots and hypocrites.The Other Secret Jews
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book explores the complex modern history of the Donmeh, a Turkish Jewish sect whose originators were the flame-keepers of Sabbatianism, the passionate messianic heresy of the 17th century.Two Righteous Women
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Lynn Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Remembering Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family, and the dying American woman who in 1988 brought her to Manhasset, Long Island.