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Vayishlah: Notes on CampWednesday, November 28, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Did Jacob have one camp, two camps, or three? In a chapter about camps, it would seem to matter. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:23
The Twenty-Seventh ManWednesday, November 28, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On the night of August 12, 1952, a group of Yiddish writers was executed on Joseph Stalin’s orders for the crime of writing while Jewish. The executions were the tragic culmination of the grand romance between Jewish intellectuals and Marxism.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Charles Levinson and Adam Entous | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It was opposed by the top brass and dismissed by American officials; but in seven years, Iron Dome went from a pipe dream to Israel's greatest defensive asset.David’s Tomb
Archeologists have long dismissed Raymond Weill's century-old hypothesis that tunnels in the City of David were the necropolis of the ancient kings. But could Weill have been right?UN-happy Anniversary
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A motion to recognize "Palestine" as an official observer at the UN will be introduced on the 65th anniversary of the UN partition plan creating Israel. There the similarity ends.There Must Be an Angel
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While angels often appear in Biblical narratives, medieval Jewish commentators could not agree about what they are—and what their nature means for the afterlife.Bye Bye Barak
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ehud Barak's surprise retirement from politics has not disappointed everyone. But some commentators are already comparing him to another general-turned-politician, Moshe Dayan.
Inheriting AbrahamTuesday, November 27, 2012 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On August 28, Jon D. Levenson, the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University, spoke with the current class of Tikvah fellows about his latest book, the first volume in the Library of Jewish Ideas: Inheriting Abraham. Here, an edited transcript of the event.
