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The Devil Is in the DetailsFriday, October 8, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.Losing Robinson Crusoe
Friday, 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.
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.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.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A plan to improve the layout of the Western Wall plaza by adding an access tunnel, a visitors' center, and a movable divider between the men's and women's sections has already provoked an outcry.