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Flow of HistoryThursday, June 14, 2012 by Harold Brodsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the Jordan River was agriculturally useless until the modern day, it has been politically and spiritually significant for millennia. Reform Has Mandate to Change
Thursday, June 14, 2012 by Rick Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Come survive with us" is hardly an inspiring call to Jewish commitment. We can do better.Sh’lah: Let Us Prey
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik Joshua and Caleb, the two "good" spies, tell the people not to be afraid of the Canaanites—with a nice bit of biblical Hebrew slang. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:52
Steal This Siddur
If anyone might be poised to understand how a project of decentralized authority and radically distributive ownership could operate in a market-based economy, it would be the treasurer of a kibbutz.
Fleshpots and Ice Cream PintsWednesday, June 13, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
If anyone might be poised to understand how a project of decentralized authority and radically distributive ownership could operate in a market-based economy, it would be the treasurer of a kibbutz.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From olim, one hears an American—or is it an atavistic?—yearning for quality and convenience. We Failed Zuckerberg
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Dana Evan Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Reform rabbi argues that his movement's pluralistic theology is to blame for the detachment of young Jews from their faith.Wagner the Dog
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What does it say about Jewish sensibilities that a month after Tel Aviv University hosted a "Nakba Day" commemoration, it judged a concert of Wagner's music to be beyond the pale?
At the Edge of the Abyss
The striking thesis of a new work is that even before Hitler came to power, the prognosis for European Jewry was bleak: "The demographic trajectory was grim and, with declining fertility, large-scale emigration, increasing outmarriage, and widespread apostasy, foreshadowed extinction."
Never on SaturdayTuesday, June 12, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The striking thesis of a new work is that even before Hitler came to power, the prognosis for European Jewry was bleak: "The demographic trajectory was grim and, with declining fertility, large-scale emigration, increasing outmarriage, and widespread apostasy, foreshadowed extinction."
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"During the Katrina disaster, President Bush declared to his senior staff that there would be no weekend . . . As a Sabbath observer, I wondered what to do."Israelis, Learn Arabic!
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Yaron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though tiny Israel is surrounded by more than 200 million Arabic speakers, its government has failed to treat Arabic studies with the appropriate seriousness.