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Alphabet CoupTuesday, August 31, 2010 by Anson Rainey and Orly Goldwasser | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who invented the alphabet: sophisticated West Semitic scribes, or illiterate turquoise miners? A debate.No Such Thing
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by Tamar Sternthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The former head of Meretz has applauded a boycott by Israeli theater professionals who won't be "dragged" to the settlement of Ariel on "Jewish-only apartheid roads." Which roads are those?
World Jewish CongressMonday, August 30, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a show of solidarity with Israel, leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) will be gathering in Jerusalem at the end of the month. Not to be confused with the American Jewish Congress, of which it was originally an outgrowth, or the World Zionist Congress, founded by Theodor Herzl, the WJC is an umbrella group of Diaspora organizations (including the European Jewish Congress, the Latin American Jewish Congress, and others) that defines itself somewhat grandly as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." If you haven't heard of it, there's a reason.
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Elizabeth Weingarten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iranian Jews in America straddle at least three different societies and identities; still, they build their homes of brick, to last.Greek Justice
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Richard Ayoun | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Those arrested in the devastating double arson of an exquisitely restored 16th-century Cretan synagogue will evidently not face trial; a pattern is at work here. (Scroll down for English text.)Does Halakhah Change?
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Francis Nataf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Innovation in Jewish religious law is natural; but, as a new book suggests, everything depends on the context and the circumstances.Through a Warped Lens
Monday, August 30, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When it comes to the Holocaust, even a documentary based on original footage, like Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished, has more in common with other movies than with the experience it depicts.Not Your Grandmother’s Candlesticks
Monday, August 30, 2010 by Menachem Wecker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To view the works exhibited at a recent show of contemporary ritual Judaica is to ask where the line should be drawn between Jewish art and Jewish kitsch.Arrested Development
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today, adulthood comes later and later. Why should the age of bar mitzvah stay the same?Mountain Jews
Friday, August 27, 2010 by Sarah Marcus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two-and-a-half millennia ago, a band of Jews passed through Persia and settled in the Caucasus mountains, where amid growing hardship they maintain their culture today.
