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Creed or People?Thursday, March 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Is Jewishness a matter of belief, or of belonging? The question, which agitates many Jews and non-Jews in today's multicultural world, is in fact very old—and it has been illuminated by recent scholarship into the relationships among Judaism, Christianity, and the religions and rulers of the later Roman Empire. The traditional image of Judaism as Christianity's parent has long given way to an image of two competing interpretations of ancient Israelite religion and its spiritual legacies. After the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., these two emergent religious communities, in all their permutations, would develop in the shadow of imperial Rome. How...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Gerald Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Would Jewish men be less depressed if they drank more?Glorifying Murderers
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich, and Yossi Zur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dalal Mughrabi came to Israel to kill innocents, and succeeded; her name now graces a town square and a girls’ school in the Palestinian Authority. Germany and Israel
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Lars Haensel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fifty years ago, David Ben-Gurion sat down with Konrad Adenauer.From Yemen to Monsey
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Nicole Neroulias | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A band of impoverished Jews from a once-flourishing community prepares for its first Passover in America.The Prophet’s Wife
Thursday, March 18, 2010 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A novel by Rabbi Milton Steinberg, left unfinished at his death in 1950, is finally being published.The Company of the Snubbed
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Robert Kagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel isn't Washington's only unhappy democratic ally; it's just the most vulnerable.Friends in Deed
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Evangelical support for Israel has deep roots in American history, and deeper roots in gratitude to the Hebrew Bible.Room to Breathe
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Jay Merrick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The newly refurbished Jewish Museum of London successfully illuminates the values, history, and achievements of Jewish life.Syria Takes Over
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Roee Nahmias | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Lebanon, the "March 14" anti-Syria movement has collapsed, and Bashar Assad has won.
