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Did Red Bull Stratos Break a Halakhic Barrier?Friday, November 2, 2012 by Shlomo M. Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Not long ago, much of the world watched as Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped to earth in a record-setting free fall that broke the sound barrier.
Friday, November 2, 2012 by Benjamin Balint | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The memoir of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, known for his achievement in Shoah, focuses on other "achievements": "I am the only man with whom Simone de Beauvoir lived a quasi-marital existence." Israel’s un-Bernanke
While most central banks have reduced interest rates to record lows to maintain housing prices, the Bank of Israel’s Stanley Fischer has resisted following suit. Will he stay the course?The Fall of the House of Wittgenstein
Friday, November 2, 2012 by Jeremy Eichler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Beethoven sculpture, a "gift of Paul Wittgenstein," has just arrived at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It reminds us of a brilliant family of Secession-era Vienna—and its fall.