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Daven Less, Learn MoreFriday, August 13, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish prayer services are too long, fostering late arrivals, talking, and unfocused minds.From China to Yeshivah
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group of yarmulke-clad young men from Kaifeng's Jewish community, now studying in Israel, seem less bothered by Orthodoxy's strictures than puzzled by its leniencies.
The New Israel MuseumFriday, August 13, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
An expanded and revamped Israel Museum re-opened to the public in late July after three years of renovations. While the modest architecture remains as it was, the modernist cubes rolling with the Jerusalem landscape, the jumble of buildings has been streamlined: 25,000 square feet of exhibition space have been added, but the number of items on display has been reduced by a third. Overall, the design is significantly more user-friendly, with a spacious new entrance hall leading to the museum's remarkable collections, including its three most significant wings: archeology, Jewish art and life, and fine art.
Friday, August 13, 2010 by George F. Will | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Barack Obama is a progressive post-nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu is his antithesis.Where Christian Zionism Was Born
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Shalom Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why did certain 19th-century British thinkers and statesmen identify with "God's chosen people" and advocate their restoration to their ancient land?A Palestinian Right of Return?
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Ariela Ringel Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the view of two eminent experts, international law does not recognize the right of Palestinian refugees or their descendants to return to their former homes.They Have Names
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Robert Mackey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ending a prison hunger strike in order to preserve their strength, Iranian dissidents demonstrate that the opposition, though hobbled, struggles fiercely on.Herman the Former Jew
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rare 12th-century Latin memoir offers a unique window into the thinking of a Jewish apostate—if it is authentic.
The Soul and the MachineThursday, August 12, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The astounding growth of the Internet, computer technology, and artificial intelligence is a commonplace of our time; so is the challenge each poses to familiar ways of commerce and culture, and even to our basic understandings of humanity. Some of the farthest reaches of these developments are expressed in the "singularity" envisioned by the futurologist Raymond Kurzweil: a dazzling world in which, by the end of this century, humans will have so thoroughly merged with fog-like nano-computers that our bodies will no longer have a fixed form and we will, at long last, wield total control over—or be wholly at the mercy of?—an utterly...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Danny Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The "Kirtan Rabbi," a/k/a Andrew Hahn, harnesses a Sanskrit call-and-response form of worship to promote what he insists is authentic Judaism. (With video)
