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The OutliersFriday, March 29, 2013 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Bukharan Jews are often viewed as a group of isolated exotics. In fact, they are not so different that there has ever been much question about their belonging to the Jewish people.
Friday, March 29, 2013 by Margalit Fox | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1945 Rabbi Herschel Schacter, who has died at age 95, entered Buchenwald with Patton’s Third Army. “Shalom Aleichem, Jews,” he shouted to the inmates in Yiddish, “you are free!”Iran the Peacemaker
Friday, March 29, 2013 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Netanyahu’s apology to the Turkish prime minister may have been a diplomatic coup by Barack Obama—or a sign of recognition by Israel and Turkey of their common interest against Iran.Rashi the Preacher
Friday, March 29, 2013 by Martin Lockshin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The medieval rabbi Rashi has traditionally been viewed as an analyst of biblical text. But a new book argues that some of Rashi’s commentary was less exegesis than pedagogy.One Jew Too Many
Friday, March 29, 2013 by Adam Levick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Libya recently barred Bernard-Henri Levy from visiting because he is Jewish. The Libyans are merely being consistent: by 2004 they had managed to drive out every one of their Jews.Why Is Manischewitz Matzah Like the iPhone?
Friday, March 29, 2013 by Daniel Fromson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
OK, the founder of the Manischewitz matzah-making company wasn’t exactly Steve Jobs. But, like Jobs, he took an existing product, tweaked and improved it, and vastly improved its image.
As a Driven LeafThursday, March 28, 2013 by Phil Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Milton Steinberg's As a Driven Leaf is no literary masterpiece. But the novel, with its story of a notorious 2nd-century, C.E. heretic, has been in print for 75 years. What accounts for the book's appeal to generations of modern Jews?
Thursday, March 28, 2013 by Lazer Gurkow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does the Torah tell us that God rescued the Israelites with both a mighty hand and an outstretched arm? Because our redemption was not only physical, but spiritual.The Embrace of the Evangelicals
Thursday, March 28, 2013 by Maud Newton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christian bar mitzvahs, Christian prayer shawls, Christian support for Israel—should Jews be mistrustful and offended? Or should they welcome the new evangelical reality?