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Under My Umbrella?Thursday, August 30, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The use of umbrellas on Shabbat, universally forbidden in Orthodoxy, is an example of an early authority dominating the discussion and setting communal standards.Chabad vs. Chabad
Thursday, August 30, 2012 by Paul Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What’s at stake in a decades-long battle by a powerful Lubavitch rabbi to take over the deed to a 150-family synagogue in a Detroit suburb?Burnt House
Thursday, August 30, 2012 by Leen Ritmeyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An excavated palace not far from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount might have been the palace of the High Priest Annas—and thus the site of Jesus’ Jewish trial. (Interview by Justin Taylor)Education, Not Persecution
Thursday, August 30, 2012 by Jonathan B. Krasner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Literacy explains the Jews’ scattered settlement in scores of small communities throughout Christian Europe, where the demand for skilled occupations was limited.
Neologism and NationalismThursday, August 30, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
There has never been agreement about Zionism. Not only is the idea of Jewish nationalism controversial, the very word “Zionism” arouses unique passions, as a recent controversy highlights.
Sin, Sin, SinWednesday, August 29, 2012 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the current Hebrew month of repentance, it’s hard not to notice that we live in a culture that takes sin far less seriously than it used to. The formula “mistakes were made” has largely replaced the admission of personal responsibility.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
When Achilles drags Hector's body behind his chariot, Apollo says, "He does dishonor to the dumb earth." Deuteronomy expresses a similar sentiment. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:54The Not-So-Grand
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by Ilan Greenberg and Andrew Radin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Armchair diplomats keep inventing “grand bargains”—for Syria, Afghanistan, the Middle East. But what diplomats do best is to sweat the details, not impose overarching solutions dreamed up abroad.
