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New CommunitiesTuesday, February 16, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Recent years have seen a surge of new Jewish communities: experiments in communal living like Moishe House, urban kibbutzim in Israel's inner cities, back-to-nature programs combining organic farming, kashrut, and "eco-justice," and, perhaps most notably, independent minyanim in the U.S., Israel, and elsewhere. These last—communities focused principally or exclusively on prayer—shun not only the formality and organizational heft of most synagogues but also the labels and authority of denominational Judaism. Some of the most prominent have been created by Orthodox Jews seeking to make room for greater participation by women; others comprise young people experimenting with their own forms of...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Jacob Shrybman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The only NGO to provide the Goldstone Commission with the human story of Sederot is still waiting for its check from the New Israel Fund.Jews vs. Joseph Lieberman
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For some, the Connecticut Senator is a disgrace not only to liberalism but also to Judaism.Learning from Orthodox Judaism
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Rod Dreher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a recent analysis of Orthodoxy's strengths apply to Christianity as well?What Conservative Judaism Needs
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Arnold Eisen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an interview, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary outlines his vision.
A Dead Issue?Monday, February 15, 2010 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since the electrifying discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran in the late 1940's, the scholarly consensus has been that they were produced by the Essenes, a small Second Temple-era Jewish sect known to us from Josephus. Last year, a book by Rachel Elior, Memory and Oblivion: The Secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew), upended this seemingly settled issue by contending that, in fact, the Essenes never existed. Elior's revolutionary thesis, argued with force and stridency, has been discussed in major mainstream publications from Israeli newspapers to Time magazine. But the controversy, and clashing assessments of her achievement as a historian, have...
Monday, February 15, 2010 by Salah Uddin Shouaib Choudhury | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For advocating normalization with Israel, two prominent Egyptian journalists are under attack—by their fellow journalists.Blunder or Blood Libel?
Monday, February 15, 2010 by Uri Dromi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Responding to a British baroness who accused Israeli doctors in Haiti of harvesting organs for transplantation.The Other Refugees
Monday, February 15, 2010 by Batsheva Sobelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The claims of Jews who fled persecution by Arab regimes have yet to be properly addressed in law or diplomacy.In Praise of Hakirah
Monday, February 15, 2010 by Alan Jay Gerber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
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