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Prenup: The New KetubahFriday, November 16, 2012 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ketubah was the first prenuptial agreement, meant to ensure appropriate divorce settlements. The new "halakhic prenup" aims to supplement the ketubah—and solve the agunah problem.Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
Friday, November 16, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Asimov’s Foundation novels are not Jewish—but one rabbi sees them as an “oasis of right-thinking in a barbaric world,” a “metaphor for the Jewish people in exile."Bad for the Jews
Friday, November 16, 2012 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Given Jews' reputations as non-drinkers, you might expect a book about Jews and alcohol to be thin. Jews and Booze shows otherwise.
Self-Hatred or Self-Help?Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the most insightful scenes from Larry David's comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, begins with David and his on-air wife, Cheryl, standing at the entrance to a movie theater. As they chatter aimlessly, David starts whistling a tune composed by Richard Wagner.
Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Should an inheritor of Abraham follow the way of Torah, the way of Gospel, or Islamic submission to God? And are they all, underneath, the same way?Israel Targets Hamas
Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Ilan Ben Zion and Elie Leshem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Responding to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel has now assassinated the head of Hamas’s military wing. “And this,” says an IDF spokesman, “isn’t the end of it.”The Dangers of Closure
Thursday, November 15, 2012 by Chaim Steinmetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The modern insistence on closure for mourners is disrespectful to the dead—and fails to recognize the importance of grief, memory, and what is lost by moving on.
