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Yasir Arafat Poisoned?Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Volkhard Windfuhr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Eight years after Arafat’s mysterious death in Paris, the French have begun a criminal investigation. Who poisoned him? The Israelis? Or, with outside help, his Palestinian comrades?The Talmud in Dutch, a Tribute
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Holocaust survivor Jacob de Leeuwe has finished translating the first tractate into Dutch, in a tribute to a vanishing community and a work of "tikkun."
Spinoza in ShtreimelsTuesday, September 4, 2012 by Carlos Fraenkel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Philosophy professor Carlos Fraenkel wrote that “the cultural relativism that often underlies Western multicultural agendas [is] a much greater obstacle to a culture of debate than religion.” Today, in an exclusive preview from the Jewish Review of Books, Fraenkel relates how his theory fared among a group of Hasidim.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by George Dvorsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Pregnancy is barbaric,” wrote Shulamith Firestone (italics hers, indignation ours). But she was as much da Vinci as de Beauvoir, predicting artificial wombs, donor-sperm banks, even computer schooling.