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And That’s an Order?Wednesday, January 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
International pressure is mounting on the Netanyahu government to freeze—and eventually remove—Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. Simultaneously, a heated domestic debate is taking place within the national-religious (Dati Leumi) community over whether religious soldiers can, if push comes to shove, resist a government order to remove settlers from their homes. The argument resonates most strongly in the "Hesder" yeshivot, higher-level schools whose students alternate periods of Talmud study with active military duty. Yesterday, the heads of Har Etzion, a flagship Hesder yeshiva, issued a strong statement against disobedience. The issue is made more acute by the fact that so many religious...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Randy Kennedy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a coup, a small Jewish museum in London recently purchased a previously unknown work by the master. Going Down to Egypt
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Salah Nasrawi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an instance of a burgeoning pilgrimage culture, hundreds flock to Egypt from Israel and France for the hilula (yahrzeit) of a 19th-century Moroccan rabbi.Preconceived Preoccupation
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Paul Kujawsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent articles underline the fundamental legality of Israel's presence in the West Bank, whether or not Israel decides to stay there.What was Bothering Nehama Leibowitz?
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Judah S. Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A weeklong seminar lovingly and at times critically explored the legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential teachers of the Hebrew Bible.Backward from Authenticity
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a hip pseudonymous blogger, the idea that authentic Jewishness is always and only about the personal is both untrue and unhip.Israel’s Cinema Comes of Age
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Hannah Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reviewing a breakout decade of Israeli movies.No Israeli Films Allowed
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Tuvia Tenenbom | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, Israel and Israelis were un-persons. (Originally in Die Zeit.)
Rabbi Who?Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prominent rabbi in Israel has landed in hot water with his Orthodox colleagues for referring to the historical Jesus, admiringly, as a "model rabbi." This is not the first time that the American-born Shlomo Riskin, a long-time supporter of enhancing women's roles in Orthodoxy, has shown himself willing to push the religious envelope. Though he quickly qualified his reported remarks, this latest contretemps highlights not only internal debates within the rabbinic fraternity but also, more intriguingly, the changing shape of Jesus in the mind and imagination of contemporary Jews. On both sides, indeed, the dramatic diminishment over recent decades in official...
Monday, January 4, 2010 by Scott Jaschick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's English departments offer courses in just about every ethnic literature—except one.
