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Should Religion Be Commercialized?Friday, February 8, 2013 by Michael A. Helfand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent conflicts between law and religion in America have centered on the intersection of commerce and religion. But commercialization of religion is not the problem—it's the solution.
Signs of the TimesThursday, February 7, 2013 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A new report by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America is the latest in a long line to allege anti-Israel bias at the New York Times. But the newspaper isn't about to change.
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Amir Mizroch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fearing that a new alliance between Yesh Atid and Jewish Home will see haredim drafted into the IDF, Israel's haredi rabbis are mounting a fierce campaign to protect the status quo.A Time for Torture?
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Michael J. Broyde and Jacob L. Wright | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"If we can save innocent lives by applying psychic and physical anguish to those who pose an imminent threat, then it would be morally untenable for a society to categorically exclude this as an option."Holograms of the Holocaust
The Holocaust is fading from living memory, but future generations will be able to meet Holocaust survivors face-to-face—as 3-D holograms.Smashing the Idols
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Josh Yuter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Has veneration of gedolim, great rabbis, become "the single greatest impediment to intelligent religious discourse in the Orthodox Jewish community"?