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The Daily Page: A “Siyum”-posiumThursday, August 2, 2012 by Jacob J. Schacter, Yoel Finkelman, Michael Carasik, Tzvi H. Weinreb, Devora Steinmetz, Moshe Sokolow, Yehudah Mirsky, Mark Gottlieb, David Glasner, Aryeh Tepper, Marc B. Shapiro, Gil Student, Emanuel Feldman, Alon Shalev, Viva Hammer, Shlomo Zuckier, and Saul J. Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
UPDATE: New posts as of 8/3/12, 1:11 a.m.
Thursday, August 2, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Flinders Petrie willed his head (“as a specimen of a typical British skull”) to London’s Royal College of Surgeons, and when he died in 1942, the doctors in Jerusalem duly cut it off and prepared it for shipping . . . Chabad: The Operation
Thursday, August 2, 2012 by Steven Windmueller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Many leadership experts focus on the Hasidic sect’s organizing model, but can it be copied and reproduced elsewhere? Hashemites Hanging in the Balance
In the wake of the Arab Spring, Jordan’s King Abdullah II has tried to strike a delicate balance between loosening his power and maintaining his rule.A Very Long Jump
Thursday, August 2, 2012 by Stephanie Butnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Of the 37 Olympians representing Israel at this year’s games, a mere 20 were born in Israel. Two American-born athletes only became Israeli citizens since the last Olympic cycle.The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Thursday, August 2, 2012 by Norman Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When Gore Vidal came more or less fully out of the anti-Semitic closet, he still thought it the better part of prudence to protect himself by posing as the spokesman for a minority which was being persecuted by the Jews. (1986)
