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Limmud Turns 33Tuesday, January 29, 2013 by Clive Lawton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"As far as I remember, this was the first time in the Jewish world that Orthodox Jews could hear what Reform Jews really thought and vice versa."
From Reparations to AtonementMonday, January 28, 2013 by Ismar Schorsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Where recognition of the Holocaust was once restricted to the office of the Chancellor, there is a grassroots commitment in today's Germany to take ownership of the past.
Monday, January 28, 2013 by Meir Soloveichik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There are millions of Americans who “have no idea what the word 'kishkes' means, but whose concern for the state of Israel is bone-deep."Israel’s Election: Finally, Free Markets?
Monday, January 28, 2013 by Uriel Lynn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Likud-Beiteinu, Yesh Atid, Jewish Home, and Hatnua parties, Israel has the building blocks of a market-oriented government that could transform the economy.Modernity’s Price in the Middle East
Monday, January 28, 2013 by Bernard Lewis, Norman Podhoretz, and Peter Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"In the pre-modern Middle East,” says Lewis,” there were many institutions in which power arose not from above but from within. All that was destroyed by modernization." (Video)Nazis Among Us
Monday, January 28, 2013 by Efraim Zuroff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every year the Simon Wiesenthal Center publishes a report on war criminals apprehended and at large. "It is still possible," says its director, "to bring the perpetrators to justice."Did Miriam Sing?
Monday, January 28, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Because Miriam sang at the Red Sea, say some, it cannot be forbidden by halakhah for men to hear women’s voices in song. But did Miriam really sing?