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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 Discontents Secularism and Its Discontents
Thursday, 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.
Delegitimizing the Delegitimizers
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"The poisonous role of the UN human rights world in demonizing and isolating Israel cannot be overestimated"; but it can be combated.
The World’s Oldest Torah Scroll
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A Torah scroll discovered in a Bologna archive was originally misidentified as a 17th-century manuscript; its true date has now been established as five centuries earlier.
Israel’s Talmudic Turn
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Sid Slivko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Educators reaching out to young secular Israelis in the hope of introducing them to the Talmud have discovered a willing audience.
Kindertransport Remembered
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Lucy Ward | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

This year, Britain marks the 75th anniversary of a mass evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe.