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Moravian Morals for MontrealFriday, August 31, 2012 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When Montreal police entered the home of Amir Khadir, a member of Quebec’s parliament, they found a curiously revealing objet d’art: a parody of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, with Khadir, in the position of Lady Liberty, standing triumphantly over the corpse of Quebec premier Jean Charest.
Israel has lots of sun and the best of solar technology. But just try getting the government’s go-ahead for a solar energy project.Talmudic Stories, with Ruth Calderon
Friday, August 31, 2012 by Steve Paulson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Woven into the Talmud’s legal arguments are “miniature stories,” written by Babylonian rabbis, that leaven the debate with human texture. Two Faces of the Law
Friday, August 31, 2012 by Marc Angel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How two halakhic authorities, Rabbis Avraham Yitzhak Kook and Bentzion Meir Hai Uziel, examine the same texts—and reach opposite conclusions.Radio Days
Friday, August 31, 2012 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thirty years ago, musicologist Henry Sapoznik discovered a trove of 1,000 recordings of inter-war American Yiddish radio shows.From Habermas to Judith Butler
Friday, August 31, 2012 by Edward Alexander | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Jew who came to prominence as an academic proponent of anti-Israel divestment, Berkeley's star post-structuralist has just won Germany’s prestigious Theodor Adorno Prize.What Was Yad Vashem Thinking?
Thursday, August 30, 2012 by Meir Wikler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Six years after the museum was called to task for its systematic underrepresentation of religious victims of the Holocaust, there’s not much evidence of change.
