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Pinhas: “Simeon and Levi are Brothers”Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This week's reading places principal emphasis on the order of the sacrifices, delineating the entire year's required offerings along with their accompanying libations and meal-offerings. It begins, however, where last week's reading left off: with the aftermath of the Midianites' seduction of the Israelites.Jordan on the Edge
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Alexander Bligh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In addition to its domestic challenges, the Hashemite Kingdom sees itself under existential threat from the prospect of Palestinian statehood.Going Local
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With national Jewish population studies becoming a thing of the past, American Jewish communities are investing in surveying their own.
The Reluctant RenegadeTuesday, July 12, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since its founding, Conservative Judaism in the U.S. has defined itself in sharp contrast to Reform, pursuing a more religiously centrist and Zionist middle course. Its UK parallel, Masorti ("traditional") Judaism, was born as a secession movement from Orthodoxy—inspired by theologian Louis Jacobs.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Clifford D. May | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What do the Second Amendment, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and support for Israel have in common?Reclaimed
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Doreen Carvajal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Centuries after the forced conversion of their ancestors to Catholicism, members of fifteen families on the island of Majorca have been recognized as full-fledged Jews.Baby Un-Boom
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Tamar Rotem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are ultra-Orthodox Israeli women giving up their "career" of multiple childbearing?The Hebrew Hammer
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The closest a Jewish hitter has come to perfection: Hank Greenberg's 58 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1938.Man-oh-Manischewitz
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the world's largest manufacturer of gefilte fish came to be headed by two Moroccan Jews from Casablanca.Diplomacy, Flotilla Style
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If diplomacy stopped this year's flotilla to Gaza, could it have stopped last year's?
