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One-Step EthicsWednesday, October 17, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For 13 years in the New York Times Magazine, Randy Cohen’s weekly column, “The Ethicist,” posed and answered ethical questions from readers. I turned to the book for a summation of his ethical sensibility—and found evidence of both his decency and the limits of his secular approach, which in turn highlight a danger society currently faces.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though the Libyan assassinations were a calamity, the Syrian civil war reveals a much deeper, more dangerous U.S. policy failure.Slow-Down Nation?
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Ben Sales | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It’s not as easy as it once was for Israeli start-ups to get venture capital. Will the country’s high-tech industry decline—or learn to do more with less?Noah: Viticulture, Viniculture
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The first vineyard, the first glass of wine, and (no doubt) the first hangover. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:36Nu Students
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Dudi Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Yiddish intrigues me with its majesty,” says an Israeli Arab studying at Bar Ilan University—where Arabs make up a quarter of the students in the Yiddish program.A New Paradigm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Zev Farber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Instead of forbidding women to perform Jewish rituals unless halakhah expressly allows it, they should be permitted to participate unless halakhah expressly forbids it.