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God the EconomistMonday, May 13, 2013 by Joshua Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Occupy rallies of 2011 were the largest Israel has ever seen. As I looked at the young couples in Tel Aviv protesting the inaccessibility of housing they could call their own, I thought of the land tenure reforms of Leviticus.
Monday, May 13, 2013 by Shlomo M. Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Should Tamerlan Tsarnaev, co-perpetrator of the Boston bombings, have been buried? Jewish law extends burial rights even to the worst criminals and the most ardent enemies of God.Eichmann’s Jews
Monday, May 13, 2013 by Anton Pelinka | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new history of the Viennese Jews forced to co-operate with Adolf Eichmann argues that Benjamin Murmelstein, long vilified as collaborator, tried to save Jewish lives wherever possible.Interfaith Monologue
Monday, May 13, 2013 by Patrick Morrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Church of Scotland's report questioning Israel's right to exist read "as if there had been no Jewish-Christian dialogue since the Second World War."Next Year in Brooklyn
Monday, May 13, 2013 by Adam Blitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Should Damascus fall, as many of us believe it will, there remains the very real possibility that there will soon be no trace of a Jewish past in Syria at all."Beyond Emancipation
Monday, May 13, 2013 by Robert Fine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Mendelssohn insisted that the Haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment of the 18th century, was about the education and advancement of Jews, not about saving humanity from their allegedly noxious influence."
Beyond the GiantsFriday, May 10, 2013 by Robert Nicholson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Strange as it may sound, my idea of Israel did match reality. I’ve never imagined it to be some spotless utopia where everybody knows your name. It is a land haunted by terror and tragedy, fear and doubt. And yet it’s the land where God has chosen to reveal Himself to man.