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Rebbe ReduxFriday, October 7, 2011 by Alan Mintz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Haim Be'er's masterful new novel does something unique in Israeli literature: it examines the inner life of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.Let Us Now Praise Muslim Feminists
Friday, October 7, 2011 by Phyllis Chesler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One Jewish woman celebrates the 19th- and early-20th-century Muslims who emerged from sex slavery to fight for universal human rights.Israel Alone
Friday, October 7, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is Washington running away from its influence in the Middle East?
All These VowsFriday, October 7, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
No one knows for sure how Kol Nidrei originated. It is by far the best-known Yom Kippur prayer, but in fact it is neither a prayer nor actually recited on Yom Kippur. Rabbis have never liked it.
Friday, October 7, 2011 by Shai Secunda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unfolding beyond the crush of defeat, the Talmud's vigorous spirit of inquiry represents a great, resilient optimism.Yom Kippur at Sea
Friday, October 7, 2011 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year. (2010)Paradise Regained
Thursday, October 6, 2011 by William Kolbrener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A literary encounter with Paradise Lost helped one graduate student access the poetry inherent in the Jewish idea of repentance. Who Lived in Qumran?
Thursday, October 6, 2011 by Biblical Archaeology Society | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An architectural analysis of the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered supports the identification of the community as a Second Temple-era Jewish sect known as the Essenes.
Jonah and the Music of Yom KippurThursday, October 6, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Leviticus 10 tells us that Aaron's sons Nadav and Avihu died for bringing "strange fire" before the Lord in the wilderness. As a result of their deaths, according to Leviticus 16, God instructed Moses to ordain an annual Day of Atonement.
Thursday, October 6, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 1960's, Israeli doctors began aggressively promoting the view that declaration of death was a purely medical matter. But it wasn't easy to enlist rabbis in their cause.