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Reform of Tradition, Tradition of ReformWednesday, November 7, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Max Lilienthal’s life provides a lens through which we watch American Judaism, Reform Judaism in particular, struggle with the consequences of its own idiosyncratic condition.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The "mother of Israel in danger" stories—and the strange resonance of one of them in this week's episode. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:02So Long, Lieberman
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Joseph Lieberman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his exit interview, the retiring U.S. senator says he is"taking a sabbatical from elective partisan politics"—which might "go on for the rest of my life." (Interview by Mark Leibovich)Breaking the Kashrut Cartel
Israeli law gives the Chief Rabbinate a monopoly on kosher certification. The predictable results are complacency and corruption. But now a group of restaurateurs is fighting back.The Fuhrer Was Not Amused
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Nigel Jones | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From average Germans to Jews in concentration camps, gallows humor was one of the few weapons of resistance against the Third Reich. So, Hitler tried mightily to repress it.Fearing the Flood
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Avi Steinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Underneath all of the scientific predictions and vast technological apparatus monitoring Hurricane Sandy lay an ancient biblical fear—of the Deluge.Choosing Life
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by Tamara Mann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tamara Mann was carrying a non-viable fetus. Her Orthodox rabbi said that it was not alive, so she should terminate the pregnancy. The State of Ohio disagreed.