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Vatican’tMonday, February 6, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's decision to cede some sovereignty over the "Hall of the Last Supper" to the Catholic Church will only embolden the Vatican's campaign to appropriate Jewish Jerusalem.A Separate Peace
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Tamar Rotem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Gur Hasid, who practices a strict sexual separation, will not walk with his wife on the street. He will not call her by name. To address her, he will knock on the table. Or hum.Disjecta Membra
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Benjamin Balint | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not for nothing was the Cairo Genizah called "the Living Sea Scrolls": its discoverers revolutionized the study of Mediterranean Jewish life at the very moment that it was drawing to a close.Creating a Monster
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the weak-chinned, bespectacled, clumsy young man who ambitiously reinvented himself as . . . Heinrich Himmler.
The Dangerous Mr. NelsonMonday, February 6, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Eric Nelson is a danger to academia. You would not think so from his background. He is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has had a proper education, at Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Dave Itzkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Turkish Prime Minister called the novelist ignorant for refusing to visit Turkey because of all those journalists in Turkish jails. Auster has delivered quite an answer.Should We Worry about Adelson?
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Ira Sharkansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sheldon Adelson almost single-handedly kept Newt Gingrich's candidacy alive. Maybe that's bad for the Jews—or maybe Adelson is just providing some ideological balance to George Soros.
The Pale GodFriday, February 3, 2012 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Imagine God not as a benign force infusing the universe with love and sustaining it with mercy, and not as a stern judge smiting sinners from on high with his cosmic zap-gun, but as a grandfatherly figure, kind but, truth be told, somewhat out of it, sitting in a corner, tolerant of the various paths his children have chosen.
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Zev Eleff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 18th-century scholar Aryeh Leib Ginsburg was a harsh critic of earlier halakhic authorities. Did they finally exact revenge on him? And, if so, who's been covering up the story?Independent is the New Democrat
Friday, February 3, 2012 by Ilana Ostrin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish affiliation with the Democratic Party has dropped by ten percent since 2009. This won't hurt President Obama—but may affect other electoral races in 2012.
