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Inconvenient TruthsMonday, December 14, 2009 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Britain has never been much more than a fair-weather friend to Jewish national aspirations.”What Judith Did
Monday, December 14, 2009 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The legend of a brave and pious woman, and the lessons of Hanukkah.Voyage of the Damned
Monday, December 14, 2009 by Elinor J. Brecher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seventy years ago, 937 German Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis were refused entry to the United States and forced to return to Europe; yesterday, 33 survivors gathered in Miami.Judaism and Academic Jewish Studies: Friends or Foes?
Friday, December 11, 2009 by The Staff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A student interview with David Berger, professor and dean of graduate Jewish studies at Yeshiva University.
The New SyncretismFriday, December 11, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In today’s Wall Street Journal, a professor of religion casts a gimlet eye at the widespread religious promiscuity in contemporary America. “Americans are swingers as well as switchers,” he writes, “flirting with religious beliefs and practices other than their own without officially changing their religious affiliation.” As more and more Americans “are now bellying up to . . . the ‘divine deli,’” the result is a “melting down [of] the sharp edges of the world's religions,” to the detriment of all parties. Among American Jews, the best-known variant of the syncretistic syndrome is the “JewBu” phenomenon, a do-it-yourself hybrid of...
Friday, December 11, 2009 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What it wants is to divide the city of Jerusalem.“Torah Law” in Israel’s Courts: Fighting Words
Friday, December 11, 2009 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israelis both secular and religious are right to oppose Minister Neeman’s revolutionary idea.“Torah Law” in Israel’s Courts: Bring it On
Friday, December 11, 2009 by Anshel Pfeffer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One of the world’s oldest and most adaptive legal codes has much to contribute to modern legal understanding—and besides, it might find itself transformed in the process.The Stones Speak
Friday, December 11, 2009 by Brian Blondy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A newly deciphered inscription verifies the events precipitating the Maccabean Revolt and the story of Hanukkah.
Abortion: Is There a Jewish Perspective?Thursday, December 10, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Controversy over the Obama administration’s proposed overhaul of American health care has dwelled in part on the issue of public subsidization of abortion. Although the bill passed by the House upheld the status quo and banned such subsidies—to the dismay of its liberal supporters—the subject has not faded from sight. Amid the turmoil, little attention has focused on the question of abortion itself, its moral and ethical status. Is there a distinctive Jewish view of this matter? In practice, to judge by survey results and voting patterns, Jews hold the most permissive “pro-choice” views of any group in the American population,...