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What About Gantz?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In assessing the Iranian nuclear threat, we should listen to the current head of Israel's military rather than out-of-the-loop retired generals.
When a Cantor Can’t
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Debra Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What's the difference between an "ordained" and an "invested" cantor? Plenty, say Reform officials.
Alma, Tell Us
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Ilan Stavans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Did Isaac Bashevis Singer's long-suffering wife write a memoir?
Aharei Mot-K’doshim: Abide with Me
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week we are told that the Tent of Meeting "abides" in the midst of the Israelites—something that a tent ought not to be doing. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:11:28
There are More Things in Heaven and Earth
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by David Winters | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

And there are other Walter Benjamins besides the post-Kantian philosopher dreamt of by Eli Friedlander.
The Patriarch
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Michal Shmulovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While Benzion Netanyahu will go down in history as a pathbreaking scholar and political activist, Israel's prime minister will remember the father who braved a snowstorm rather than let his son go to bed hungry.
Trailing the Magic Bullet
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Josh Feinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Permission to treat Christians, entrance quotas, scientific heroes, magic cures, and nursing campaigns: a new exhibit explores the glorious, scandalous history of Jews and modern medicine. (Slideshow)
Lions and Angels
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Adin Steinsaltz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How did the legendary rabbinic scholar, who was raised in a secular household, become religious? "It was almost spontaneous." (Video)
In Defense of Jewish Nationalism
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Robert Wolfe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Jewish national movement is now composed of religious nationalists, secular nationalists, and Jewish loyalists. What it lacks is a conception of Jewish nationalism that can appeal to non-Jews.
Find, Fix, Finish Find, Fix, Finish
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

What is the threat? Al-Qaeda? "Terrorism"? "Violent religious extremism"? Israeli analysts call it "global jihad," but U.S. leadership has carefully circumscribed it as "al-Qaeda" or, even more narrowly, personified it as Osama bin Laden and his minions, hijackers of planes and Islam.
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