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The Chief Rabbi of CanterburyMonday, December 24, 2012 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With his public defense of religion, the outgoing Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has fulfilled an important role within British society—just not the one he was appointed to perform.
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jonathan Pollard was denounced as the most treacherous American spy since Benedict Arnold. But recently released documents show he never turned over information about the United States.Not Written in the Stars
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Jennifer Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like the Mayans who said the world would end on December 21, medieval Jews predicted the future from the cosmos—much to the consternation of Maimonides.Lost in Translation
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Zev Eleff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Samson Raphael Hirsch has been described as “the intellectual godfather of modern Orthodoxy.” But his influence on American Orthodoxy had to wait until long after his death.Home Truths
Monday, December 24, 2012 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whereas Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu once hoped to win 50 seats together, now they are hemorrhaging support to Netanyahu’s one-time chief of staff, Naftali Bennett, and his party, Jewish Home.Pakistan’s Forgotten Jews
Monday, December 24, 2012 by M. Bilal Lakhani | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There is a new play at the Karachi Alliance Française about Karachi Jews. Karachi’s actual Jews are gone, driven out of Pakistan along with all traces of their existence.
“Touch not Mine Anointed Ones”Friday, December 21, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Contemplating what occupies God all day, the Talmud declares that “during the last set of hours, God sits and teaches Torah to children who died untimely deaths.”
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Geza Vermes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Discrepancies among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Masoretic biblical text point to interpretative ferment in the time of Jesus.