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Identity CleftWednesday, November 16, 2011 by James Hyman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Israeli Jews are fully enveloped in a Jewish identity which embraces religion, culture, education, land, and history, American Jews have a much more limited self-definition.The Land of Oś
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Danny Ghitis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The grandson of a Holocaust survivor photographs the town that was home to Auschwitz.Hayei Sarah: This Land is My Land . . .
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This weekend, as in years past, thousands of visitors from around the world will spend Shabbat among the Jewish community of Hebron, marking the occasion of the liturgical reading of Abraham's purchase of me'arat ha-makhpelah, the "double cave," as Sarah's burial vault.Narrating the Law
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Dvora E. Weisberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new work of Talmud scholarship challenges the traditional distinction between halakhah and aggadah by identifying an overlapping literary genre: the talmudic legal story.
On the Road Again
The chronically tense relations between the Israeli government and Bedouins in the Negev—where unrecognized villages are built, razed, and built again—are certain to grow even more tense with the Israeli Cabinet's recent approval of a plan that will recognize about half these villages but demolish the other half.
The Ethics of Doctors’ StrikesWednesday, November 16, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The chronically tense relations between the Israeli government and Bedouins in the Negev—where unrecognized villages are built, razed, and built again—are certain to grow even more tense with the Israeli Cabinet's recent approval of a plan that will recognize about half these villages but demolish the other half.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Shimon Glick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The right of workers to strike is engrained in modern societies. But is it ethical for physicians to withhold treatment when human lives may be at stake?Will Israel Strike Iran?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Elliot Jager and Larry Derfner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Video debate on the likelihood of an attack, media reporting on the issue, and the international implications all around.To Be a Montefiore
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Mitchell Silver | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alan Montefiore has deployed all of the heavy machinery of analytic philosophy to better understand his illustrious family's view that he ought to be a good Jewish boy.Fraternité
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Ronen Bergman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite Sarkozy's recent faux pas, Israel has a friend in Paris, and it would be a pity to let interpersonal rifts overshadow France's staunch support where it really matters.Beyond Bad Faith
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Shelby Steele | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Palestinians will never be reached by reason until they are able to get beyond the paralyzing "poetic truth" that they are the perennial victims of an aggressive and racist Israeli nation.