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Against ToleranceWednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Appealing to Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, a young scholar reassesses the leveling effects of a modern concept that denies religion's claims to election and truth.The Deerlift
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Charles Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some 500 fallow deer in today's Israel descend from four secretly airlifted out of Tehran on the eve of the 1978 Khomeinist takeover.
TabletsWednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A few days ago, Apple released yet another new device aimed at integrating words written, spoken, and seen, and freeing them from the limitations of time and space. It joins an array of other products making texts and audio-video materials available as never before. Is anything being lost here? The Talmud declares: "Written words should not be spoken, and spoken words should not be written." What the rabbis specifically sought to impress on Jewish minds was the difference between the Written Torah, fixed, immutable, divine, and the constantly accreting commentaries known as the Oral Torah, spontaneous, dynamic, human yet also somehow partaking of...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Dan Segre | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under a government unusually supportive of Israel, a small Jewish community evinces signs of vitality and resolve.Living by the Moon
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Yoni Kempinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Report, with video, of a conference on the lunar calendar and Jewish tradition.Wall Street and Main Street
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Ira Stoll | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book illuminates the long and complicated relationship among Jews, capitalism, and anti-Semitism.
Goldstone, Again and BeyondTuesday, February 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The UN's Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead has taken on a life of its own. Late last week, Israel submitted its own official version of its military operations in Gaza, to which UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon is expected to respond today. Within Israel, calls for an independent commission of inquiry have found a prominent ally in the state's outgoing attorney general. Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz, alongside his substantive criticisms of the Goldstone Report, has denounced its author as a Jewish traitor. Intentionally or not, the Report has become a powerful element in the mounting international campaign—warfare conducted as "lawfare"—to delegitimize Israel's very existence as...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In fact, the European destruction all but killed the dream of Zionism.Planning the Family
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Ari Enkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A noted Orthodox authority argues that, contrary to widespread impression, Jewish religious law permits birth control for health and other legitimate concerns, including economic ones.An Island Mentality
Monday, February 1, 2010 by Howard Schneider | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the UN, a cluster of tiny Pacific nations help make up what Israeli diplomats call their "moral minority."
