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Come Swing with MeFriday, May 31, 2013 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the last of our highlights, Aryeh Tepper introduces the jazz-fueled piyyut of the New Jerusalem Orchestra; first published June 17, 2010. Rejoin us on Monday for Mosaic's inaugural essay: Leon Kass on the Ten Commandments.
Friday, May 31, 2013 by James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While its military capabilities enable the U.S. to be patient with Iran, for Israel the window for military action is rapidly closing.“I Was a Nazi, and Here’s Why”
Friday, May 31, 2013 by Helen Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1963, Melita Maschmann published a memoir of her Nazi youth. Fifty years later, she is remembered by her best childhood friend—and first victim.Heaven on Earth
Friday, May 31, 2013 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish law rescues man from unrealistic dreams, replacing them with dreams that are viable.Blowing the Whistle
Friday, May 31, 2013 by Moshe Simon-Shoshan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to respected Orthodox rabbis, the prohibition against reporting Jewish suspects to secular authorities rarely applies in the modern Western world. Hiding before God
Friday, May 31, 2013 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"The tallit [prayer shawl] hides the person we are and represents the person we would like to be, because in prayer we ask God to judge us, not for what we are, but for what we wish to be."
Secularism and Its DiscontentsThursday, May 30, 2013 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In an essay first published December 17, 2010, Yehudah Mirsky examines a defense of Jewish secularism and finds it—and Jewish secularism itself—wanting.