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Lending Limits
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By allowing loans to be reformulated as business deals, the Talmud circumvents the Torah’s prohibition on usury.  But there are limits to when this legal device should be used. 
Christianity: Good for the Jews? Christianity: Good for the Jews?
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Examining the state of contemporary Christendom in an article first published January 5, 2012, Elliot Jager asks whether Jews have an interest in seeing Christianity thrive—and answers yes.
Kissinger the Jew
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“The outsider even as an insider, he endured the president’s anti-Semitic rants—and then endured the same contemptuous cries of ‘Jew-boy’ from harsh critics in Israel.”
Hamas Rampant
Friday, May 24, 2013 by Costanza Spocci and Eleanora Vio | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new law forbidding coed schools marks the latest victory in the terrorist organization’s campaign to impose its writ on all of Gaza’s institutions.