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What’s Wrong with Cross-Dressing?Friday, March 15, 2013 by Michael L. Satlow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although the Torah prohibits cross-dressing, it never explains why—and there is no consensus on the reason among Jewish sources in antiquity.
The National LibraryThursday, March 14, 2013 by Rochelle Furstenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
I counted on the National Library at the Hebrew University as my senior citizen’s refuge, my succor in my declining years, a protective womb that leads to a new learning. But all this will soon change.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 by Tom Carson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The reverence for Schindler's List as "the" Holocaust story "amounts to a posthumous marginalization of every innocent Hitler succeeded in killing."Constitutional Discrimination
Thursday, March 14, 2013 by Peter Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New York City’s human rights commission has charged ultra-Orthodox businesses with discrimination for demanding female modesty—that is, for exercising a constitutional right.Evading the Synagogue Tax
Thursday, March 14, 2013 by Rachel S. Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Young Jews are increasingly reluctant to pay synagogue membership fees. But they are paying for other kinds of Jewish affiliation.Still, Small Voice
Thursday, March 14, 2013 by Rick Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Rationalists, such as Maimonides, and mystical poets, such as Judah Halevi, agree that at the end of the journey there is silence—that silence is the ultimate connection." (Interview by Alfredo Borodowski)
