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Material WorldTuesday, February 21, 2012 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When is a text not a text? When it is an object. When a Torah scroll is held up in the air so that congregants can view its columns of words, it is not being read. The words that the congregation chants are indeed found in the scroll, but in two different places.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Nadav Shragai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For over a century, the Sambusky Cemetery on Mount Zion has been looted for masonry and covered with garbage. But now plans are afoot to restore it and properly commemorate its dead.The Grapes of Roth
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The correspondence of Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth displays his sparkling wit and contrarian sensibilities, but testifies above all to his terminal decline into alcoholism.Newton the Theologian
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Aron Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Known for revolutionizing empirical science, Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian. His writings on Scripture and mysticism (as well as his prediction of the apocalypse) have now been digitized in Israel.Tramp Stamp
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Tom Whitehead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Suspecting his Communist sympathies, the CIA and MI5 began investigating Charlie Chaplin. Would his missing birth certificate verify the speculation that he was really a Russian Jew?Israel’s African Influx
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Dan Kosky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Netanyahu genuinely wants to control illegal immigration to Israel from Africa, he should be constructing a proper legal process to separate economic migrants from asylum seekers.The False Crusade
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Peter Frankopan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The medieval narrative of the First Crusade as a Papal expedition to conquer Jerusalem is still rarely questioned; yet the roots of the Crusade lie not in Rome but rather in Byzantium.
Rose-Colored GlassesMonday, February 20, 2012 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jacqueline Rose, a noted professor of English in the United Kingdom and the author of many works of literary criticism, has stepped beyond the academic precincts where she first made her name to produce, over the past decade or so, a substantial opus dealing with Zionism and Israel.
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1872, a German architect became one of the only Westerners ever allowed to investigate underneath the Temple Mount. The wooden model he created remains a key source of information for archeologists.Incentivizing Organ Donation
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Danielle Ofri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel, until now ranked at the bottom of Western countries on organ donation, has started incorporating "nonmedical" criteria into the priority-based transplant list for organs. It's working.
