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Marranos in Reverse?Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At first blush, the blog reads like any modish commentary on the weekly Torah portion, complete with knowing references to the Mishnah and the building of the Tabernacle in the desert. Only upon closer examination does it become evident that the discussion of the tabernacle as a medium for drawing nearer to God is a precursor to the claim that, nowadays, God can be worshipped "directly." The blogger is a follower of "Yeshua"—a Jewish believer in Jesus. In Jewish eyes they are apostates, but a group of "Messianic Jews" living in Israel say they follow authentic Jewish lives in the footsteps...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In London, a pseudonymous ultra-Orthodox blogger pours out his heart.Handling Hamas
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Adam Ingram | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a British Labor MP, comparisons with the Irish Republican Army are tempting, but fallacious; Hamas is nowhere near ready to negotiate.Faith and the Justices
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Robert Barnes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Supreme Court now has a Catholic majority and more Jewish members than Protestants; in the making of appointments, has political philosophy become more important than religion?Powerbroker
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Tom Segev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ultra-Orthodox leader Menachem Porush ensured the insular rights of his community but failed to change the character of the Jewish state; in pursuing the opposite policy, his successors may be failing their community.Snowmageddon
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Samuel G. Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The collapse of eruvim in winter storms has raised interest in a generally unmarked Jewish concept; an American artist sees the enclosures as drawings in space.Was Chopin an Anti-Semite?
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Damian Thompson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not really, but he did have a pronounced and little-discussed distaste for Jews.
WordsMonday, March 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the potentially deleterious effects of the digital revolution is a flattening of consciousness—or so some fear. What sort of leveling takes place as we click relentlessly through the endless web? At what point do the words—thoughtful, meaningless, moving, inane—all bleed together? How to maintain any sense of the preciousness of language itself? Several texts recently come to light manage, each in its own way, to remind us that a whole, irreplaceable world can rest in a few furtive lines found who knows where. Phrases inked on pottery discovered at an excavation in Israel have been dated to the late-11th or early-10th...
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Elie Kaunfer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among young American Jews, the demand for knowledge and identification is there. Missing are the initiatives and the leaders to meet it.Killing Their Own
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Shay Fogelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the first intifada, more Palestinians were murdered by Palestinian authorities than by Israel; the tally for the second intifada stands at 593, and those not executed were horribly tortured. Human-rights groups seem uninterested.
