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Movies and MonotheismWednesday, December 5, 2012 by Julian Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For fifty years, Herman Wouk had dreamed of writing a book about Moses. Now, at the age of 97, he has finally admitted defeat—in his latest novel.Jew? Or Not A Jew?
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Robert Low | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For all the Christian echoes in Leonard Cohen's music, and his personal commitment to Roshi, his Buddhist Master, "one feels that deep down he is just as influenced by Rashi as by Roshi."Holocaust Tourism
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Wolfgang Höbel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tuvia Tenenbom’s raucous but disturbing travelogue of modern Germany, rife with accusations of anti-Semitism, shocked the country’s press last year. Now it has been translated into German.
The Turning of the Torah TideTuesday, December 4, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
“Torah Judaism today retains more of its youth than at any time since the Haskalah.” Historian Marc Shapiro recently made this remark. Can he possibly be correct?
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1976, Shlomo Avineri met with Henry Kissinger to discuss Syria and Lebanon. But they ended up talking about Kant and Hegel—to the confusion of any Soviet eavesdroppers.