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Losing Robinson CrusoeFriday, October 8, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A translation of a 20th-century Torah commentary has excised its author's moving paragraph on the "agony of solitude" endured by Daniel Defoe's hero. Why?
Englishing the Hebrew BibleFriday, October 8, 2010 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
All translators of the Hebrew Bible into English work in the shadow of the genius of the King James Version (KJV), done in the 17th century and still in wide use today despite its thee's and thou's. Jewish translations, following the sequence and other features of the Hebrew Bible, and guided by rabbinic understandings, have been brought out by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and others.
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has issued a revolutionary and problematic plea for the teaching of Torah to Christians, evidently with an eye toward genuine theological commonality between the two faiths.Defacing the Score
Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Philip Kennicott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on Gustav Mahler portrays the composer as a historical prophet, which he was not, and as haunted by his conversion to Christianity, which he also was not.Leaving Den Bosch
Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Leon de Winter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Dutch novelist, director, and columnist recalls his Jewish upbringing in post-World War II Holland.Pagan Images
Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Menachem Wecker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An ancient Roman mosaic discovered in Lod contains animal symbols that could be of pagan, Jewish, or Christian origin.
Romancing HasidismThursday, October 7, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hasidism has a long history of concurrently repelling and enchanting modern Jews. Today, its distinguishing features—isolationism, religious fanaticism, and aggressive rejection of all things modern, including not only non-Orthodox Judaism but the very idea of secularity—are inexplicable, if not abhorrent, to much of world Jewry.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newly discovered documents show that Marshal Pétain, head of France's Vichy regime, personally penciled harsher measures into Nazi Germany's anti-Semitic legislation.Atonement Now
Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the anniversary of the October 1973 war, recently released official documents present a misleadingly partial picture of the behavior of General Moshe Dayan.Buyer’s Remorse?
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Edward Klein and Richard Z. Chesnoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Disenchanted with President Obama, substantial numbers of Jewish voters have closed their wallets and say they will also sit out the November election. (Part one of a five-part series.)
