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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » Religion and State in Israel

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. Religion and State in Israel. Bull; Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Every now and then, people who in the grand scheme of things look and sound more or less like me voice opinions that make me wonder whether I’ve been sucked through the rabbit hole. Often these opinions have to do with freedoms they would like to sacrifice to government bureaucrats. All too often, those freedoms are of the religious kind. Comments are closed for this article.

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » You Only Live Twice

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. You Only Live Twice. Bull; Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Samuel Sandler, an aeronautical engineer and head of the Jewish community in Versailles, France, announced a few weeks ago that he’d had the local synagogue registered as a national landmark. My feeling is that our congregation will be gone within twenty or thirty years, he told friends, and I don’t want the building demolished or, worse, used for improper purposes. Comments are closed for this article.

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » Secularism and Its Discontents

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. Secularism and Its Discontents. Bull; Thursday, May 30, 2013. In an essay first published December 17, 2010, Yehudah Mirsky examines a defense of Jewish secularism and finds it and Jewish secularism itself wanting. That vital question is central to a new book, Not in the Heavens. The word "tradition" is key to Biale's project. For him, a major narrative thread is the observation that many modern secularists have wittingly or unwittingly reworked ideas drawn from...

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » Come Swing with Me

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. Come Swing with Me. Bull; Friday, May 31, 2013. In the last of our highlights, Aryeh Tepper introduces the jazz-fueled. Of the New Jerusalem Orchestra; first published June 17, 2010. Rejoin us on Monday for. Leon Kass on the Ten Commandments. The performance consisted of piyyutim. Fusing the basic musical elements of Moroccan piyyut. The American tenor saxophonist Greg Tardy ended one piyyut. With a bluesy solo. Stomping her Christmas-time blues. In another high...

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Ink Stained Hands: September 2011

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Shana tova, dear readers! Posted by inkstainedhands in Judaism. Posted by inkstainedhands in life. We pass by thousands of people each day - strangers who will never be anything to us, and strangers to whom we will never be anything. Those faces pass before our eyes and fade into oblivion - and with them, thousands of opportunities to connect with other human beings, to have even a tiny little bit of impact on their lives. Make the world a pleasanter place one action at a time. My first year in Stern was...

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » It’s All Happening at the Zoo

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. It’s All Happening at the Zoo. By D G. Myers. Bull; Monday, January 7, 2013. Now that Philip Roth has given up the ghost. Of fiction writing, the title of the world’s most Jewish Jewish novelist falls to Howard Jacobson, his nine-years-younger contemporary who has been called the English Philip Roth. I’m a Jewish Jane Austen, Jacobson prefers to say. Nom de non juif. What word would you use, sir? The younger of the two policeman asked me. This time it was the older ...

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » Jewish Studies in Decline?

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. Jewish Studies in Decline? Bull; Monday, March 28, 2011. Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University. On the Future of Jewish Studies. Just as global interest in Jewish thought has been surging, Israel’s universities, once the leaders in the field, have opted to invest their funds in more “lucrative” disciplines. What Price Jewish Studies? That investment has been producing ever smaller returns. While Israel is still the world center of Jewish studies,...

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Ink Stained Hands: One Year Later

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Posted by inkstainedhands in exhibits. My first year in Stern was one of the most amazing times of my life - being a part of so many things, becoming part of the Stern community, and getting to know such awesome people. And now I'm starting my second year here and I am very much looking forward to what it has in store for me. Now, YU's new coed online newspaper. Some of the articles I've recently written for the Beacon include a review of the Discovery Center's Pompeii exhibit. Glad to hear things are go...

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. You can also browse by author. You Only Live Twice. Tuesday, August 6, 2013 by Michel Gurfinkiel. Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features. European Judaism looks healthy, and secure. And yet, the majority of European Jews, seconded by many Jewish and non-Jewish experts, insist that catastrophe may lie ahead. Read in full on Mosaic. Religion and State in Israel. Wednesday, July 3, 2013 by Moshe Koppel. Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features. Monday, June 3, 2013 by Leon Kass.

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Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » The Ten Commandments

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Has been succeeded and re-launched as. Bull; Monday, June 3, 2013. The central event in the national founding. We can begin by correcting. Some common misimpressions, starting with the name Ten Commandments. Although most of the entries in the Decalogue appear in the imperative mode ( Thou shalt or Thou shalt not ), they are not called commandments (. But rather statements or words: And God spoke all these words. Later in the Bible we hear about the. In the Greek translation,.