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A Newer New Paradigm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Joshua Maroof | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A focus on expanding women’s role in rituals takes us in precisely the wrong direction: We should be looking beyond rituals to the fulfillment of more fundamental mitzvot.
Ettinger’s Redemption Ettinger’s Redemption
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

I am not sure I would have read Shmuel Ettinger if the award-winning Israeli film Footnote, which centers on the relationship between a father and son who are both members of the Talmud department of the Hebrew University, hadn’t whetted my appetite for gossip about that august institution.
Pray This Way
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even Jews who don't pray often know that when they do, they should face East to Jerusalem; so why do so many synagogues face in other directions?
What the Islamists Get Right
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Michael Moynihan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Censoring Mein Kampf, Holocaust denial, and other neo-Nazi propaganda is not only an affront to free speech but completely ineffective; and we shouldn't need Islamists to tell us so.
Bloomberg’s Ban?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Michael A. Helfand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While both Germany and San Francisco have seen genuine attempts to ban brit milah, the New York City Board of Health's decision to regulate part of the ritual is nothing of the sort.
The Jewish State
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Colin Shindler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Although the Israeli Right now demands that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, Likudniks of the past were prepared to be more flexible if peace was at stake.