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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.
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has issued a revolutionary and problematic plea for the teaching of Torah to Christians, evidently with an eye toward genuine theological commonality between the two faiths.Minority Report
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit with members of minority populations who straddle the mountainous regions bordering Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. (With photos)The Sonderberg Case
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Elie Wiesel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is all the world a stage? A theater critic uses his training to report on the trial of a young German defendant pleading "Guilty . . . and not guilty." (Novel excerpt)
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.
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.
