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Roots, Marrano-StyleThursday, February 11, 2010 by Mark Rebacz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi who was born in Spain as a Christian descendant of secret Jews is returning to teach Judaism to his fellows.The News from Wadi Abu Jamil
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Alexandra Sandels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new hit book in Arabic attempts to resurrect Beirut's lost Jewish past.Standing Alone
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is much easier to manufacture claims about Israel's inhumanity than it is to refute them.
FakesThursday, February 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The celebrated French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy had some explaining to do this week when it emerged that a philosopher he'd respectfully cited was a figment of somebody else's imagination. Jewish history boasts its own roster of hoaxes and fabrications. Most famously, the Zohar, purportedly the teaching of talmudic mystics, was largely written in the 13th century. Another product of the Middle Ages was a pseudo-talmudic text imposing extraordinary stringencies on menstruating women. In both cases, the authors clearly believed they were enunciating things that the ancients must have themselves believed. The authors of the Golem legend similarly believed that if Rabbi...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The central thoroughfare of Byzantine-era Jerusalem has been exposed, just where an ancient mosaic says it was.Academic Unfreedom
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ambassador Michael Oren is shouted down at the University of California; the historian Benny Morris is shut out from the University of Cambridge.Longing for the Extinct Jew
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Vered Zayakovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the art of the Bulgarian-born Moni Ovadia, star of Italian theater, and his audience.
The Heart or the Head?Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In recent decades, "brain death," the cessation of all neurological activity, has increasingly supplanted cardiac-respiratory failure as the most widely accepted medical criterion of death. This definitional shift has helped mitigate the often ruinous toll on families of caring for patients whose hearts can be artificially kept beating in the absence of even the simplest brain function. It has also saved lives, by facilitating the process of preserving and donating organs for transplantation. Fundamental to Judaism is the idea that human beings are created in the divine image. This affirmation of human dignity finds practical expression in the thoroughgoing prohibition on murder...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Ailene Voisin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Sacramento Kings rookie is already celebrated as a hero; now all he has to do is earn it.On the Study of Hate
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Indiana University, a new center joins the handful of academic research institutes focusing on contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.
