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Israel is BackFriday, February 19, 2010 by Guy Bechor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What concerns Israel's enemies more than anything else?Are Orthodox Couples Happier?
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Tamar Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a new study—and despite many reasons not to be—they are.
Holy SocietiesFriday, February 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the Hebrew calendar, Sunday February 21 is the seventh day of Adar, the date traditionally marking the death of Moses on Mount Nebo, overlooking Canaan, alone with God. The Lord's personal oversight of Moses' interment, in a place "unknown to this day" (Deuteronomy 34:6), inspired the rabbis of the Talmud to praise the act of burying the dead with dignity as an expression of true (because unrecompensed) kindness and indeed of imitatio dei, the injunction to follow God's ways. So it is that the seventh day of Adar is designated by tradition to honor the institution of the Hevra Kadisha, the "holy society"...
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Vernon Bogdanor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new book, Anthony Julius asks why, if anti-Semitism in Britain is not respectable, attacks on Jews have reached a record high.The Elon Affair and Religious Zionism
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A scandal over the alleged sexual misconduct of a prominent Israeli rabbi could end by strengthening a movement much tried by recent history.Saving the Classics
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Noam Ben Zeev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a scholar of Hebrew songs from the pre-1948 period, and the organization that makes them all available online.If Israel Killed al-Mabhouh, Did it Have the Right?
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Legally and morally, yes.
Libels and PoliticsThursday, February 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Here we go again. Baroness Jenny Tonge of Britian's Liberal Democratic party called recently for a serious investigation of charges that Israeli rescue teams were in Haiti to harvest organs. In the ensuing firestorm, she has been removed from her role as "health spokesman" for her party in the House of Lords. What is going on here? It is one thing for Hamas to fling about heinous lies. Among Western elites, "Israel-bashing" seems too thin an explanation for the mounting eruptions of lunatic forms of anti-Semitism, unhinged from even the most severe criticisms reasonable people might make of Israeli policies. Are we...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Implications, for the West and for Israel, of the new contest for leadership in the Muslim world.Uneasy Communion
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Robin Cembalest | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exhibit in New York focuses on the surprising intersection of Jewish and Christian art in medieval Spain.
