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Sex, Drugs, and TourismWednesday, October 26, 2011 by Philip Getz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Birthright Israel has spent $600 million treating more than 260,000 young Jews to educational tours of Israel. Will it change the trajectory of Jewish life in the Diaspora?Physician, Explain Thyself
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by Michael L. Satlow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How can we account for the Babylonian Talmud's medical advice, which in many cases seems to have been transmitted retrojectively?
Shalit: The French ConnectionWednesday, October 26, 2011 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When Gilad Shalit was released on October 17, Israel was not the only country to welcome the liberation of one of its citizens. Although Shalit was born and raised in Israel, he also holds French citizenship, through his grandmother.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by Dave Cook | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren explains how the ouster of Syria's dictator could be beneficial to Israel—and how a Palestinian state at this time would do immense harm to the prospects for peace. (With video)Point Man
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by Noam E. Marans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even after half a century of improved Catholic-Jewish relations, the Vatican's liaison to world Jewry does not have an easy job.Noah: Tower of Power
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
What's wrong with the Tower of Babel? At first glance, the famous story that closes out this week's reading seems pretty straightforward. The men of Babel build a tower to Heaven.The Lord is My . . . Lumberjack?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The topic of biblical translation deserves a good book for a general readership. But one recent effort is problematic at best—and preposterous at worst.The Oddest Alliance
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By refusing to directly confront Iran's provocations, the United States has become the Islamic Republic's key ally in its march toward a nuclear bomb.
Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Hating JewTuesday, October 25, 2011 by Dan Kagan-Kans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The French author Irène Némirovsky lived through one world war and died at Hitler's hands in the second. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Kiev at the turn of the last century, she came of age just in time to flee revolutionary Russia for Paris.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By temperament a strong misreader, the Hebrew Bible is a mine of riches for Harold Bloom. The King James version of it, considered solely as the fine and faithful translation that it is, is less so.
