All content items and modules http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/rss/all-items-modules This is All content items and modules RSS from JID en-us (c) 2009 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:49:01 EST http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html www.eResources.com (Generator) jid@eresources.com (Jewish Ideas Daily) support@eresources.com (eResources) 60 <![CDATA[Labor Pains]]> http://www.jidaily.com/JNz/r If Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's Labor Party, emerges victorious from the country's next general election, he will become the first Jewish Prime Minister to inhabit Number 10 Downing Street since Benjamin Disraeli renovated the innards of that venerable residence in 1877.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/JNz/r <![CDATA[B'har-B'hukotai: A Jeffersonian Jubilee]]> http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2012/5/16/weekly-portion/1/bhar-bhukotai-a-jeffersonian-jubilee Torah Talk with Michael Carasik

A Jeffersonian Jubilee

It's the section about the jubilee year, so naturally I'm thinking about Mark Twain and Thomas Jefferson. . . (Click here for source sheet.) 

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]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2012/5/16/weekly-portion/1/bhar-bhukotai-a-jeffersonian-jubilee <![CDATA[Putting Ralph Miliband in Context]]> http://www.jidaily.com/psOXv/r The non-Jewish Jews who became the scholars of an ideological dreamworld.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/psOXv/r <![CDATA[Lift the Blockade of Gaza]]> http://www.jidaily.com/nK0/r Israel has a right to exist, but it also has a duty, which it has breached, to comply with international law.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/nK0/r <![CDATA[Who is Ed Miliband, and What Does He Want?]]> http://www.jidaily.com/tWyF/r What does Ed Miliband's Jewishness mean for Jewish voters in Britain? And how does it square with the history of the Labor party?

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/tWyF/r <![CDATA["Thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch . . ."]]> http://www.jidaily.com/Lpz/r What distinction does a 13th-century talmudic responsum draw between calling someone a "mamzer" and calling someone a "whore's son"?

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/Lpz/r <![CDATA[Campaign for Relegitimization]]> http://www.jidaily.com/Z7Jrj/r It is no longer enough for Israel to proclaim that it seeks peace. Although it is unfashionable to speak in such terms, we are also engaged in a religious war. (PDF)

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/Z7Jrj/r <![CDATA[Body Language]]> http://www.jidaily.com/Zz0o/r Jews tended to use one hand, Italians both. Italians touched their own bodies, Jews touched the bodies of their conversational partners. But as Jews and Italians became American, so did their gestures.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/Zz0o/r <![CDATA[Israel's Gay Pride]]> http://www.jidaily.com/wQ7/r The story of gay Palestinians sheltered by Israel—some 300 in the last 20 years—goes unreported in the Western media, which is happy to hold Arabs to a lower standard.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/wQ7/r <![CDATA[Not Fit to Print]]> http://www.jidaily.com/gJ6R/r What's missing from the New York Times' front-page stories on sex abuse in Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox communities? The reportage lifted from Jewish media outlets without attribution.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/gJ6R/r <![CDATA[Nakba and Narrative]]> http://www.jidaily.com/qXFRp/r The simple narrative of the 1948 displacement of Palestinian Arabs erases the uncomfortable truth that half of Israel's Jews are there not because of the Nazis but because of the Arabs themselves.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/qXFRp/r <![CDATA[B'har-B'hukotai: A Jeffersonian Jubilee]]> http://www.jidaily.com/1QQ/r Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/1QQ/r <![CDATA[Continue Reading "A Jeffersonian Jubilee"]]> http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/detail/continue-reading-a-jeffersonian-jubilee Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/detail/continue-reading-a-jeffersonian-jubilee <![CDATA[Either/Orthodoxy]]> http://www.jidaily.com/im0/r Belying the regimented connotation of the word "orthodox," Orthodox Judaism is by far the most diverse stream of Judaism, encompassing such incompatible types as rationalists and mystics, West Bank settlers and peaceniks, college professors and obscurantists, feminists and male chauvinists.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/im0/r <![CDATA[A Serious Man]]> http://www.jidaily.com/Ou4/r One day Hilton Kramer appeared to drop off his copy in person at the New Leader offices. The editor asked him if he knew anyone who was looking for a job. "Actually, I do," he said. "Me."

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/Ou4/r <![CDATA[Common Denominator]]> http://www.jidaily.com/8Dd3d/r Across denominational lines, rabbis are facing the same problems—and are actually working together to solve them.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/8Dd3d/r <![CDATA[Black Hats and Cassocks]]> http://www.jidaily.com/o3TRr/r Prudent, measured insularity is not asceticism, and Haredim aren't monks.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/o3TRr/r <![CDATA[Israel's Future Air Force]]> http://www.jidaily.com/sHYzo/r Nano drones that an infantryman can pull out of his pocket, robots that can extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield, algorithms that resolve pilots' ethical dilemmas . . .

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/sHYzo/r <![CDATA[Sally Priesand and the Reality Principle]]> http://www.jidaily.com/1U36a/r Forty years ago, the first woman rabbi intended to get married and have children, and planned to have a nursery next to her synagogue office. Reality turned out to be different.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.jidaily.com/1U36a/r <![CDATA[Megalopolis]]> http://www.jidaily.com/2H2/r Is the solution to Israel's housing crisis the creation of a mega-city encompassing much of central Israel?

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