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Tales from TiberiasTuesday, September 4, 2012 by Aviva Bar-Am and Shmuel Bar-Am | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Now,” said the rabbi, “Go home and tell your husband you spat in my face seven times!”Amis on Evil, Amis on Levi
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Ron Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until recently the problem of understanding Hitler had bedeviled Martin Amis. Then he read a passage of Primo Levi’s. “Hora to an Exiled Girl”
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Aaron Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-lost Hannah Szenes poem comes to light.Rabbinical School Encounters
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Matt Abelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“My willingness to criticize the Palestinians, in general, and their political leadership, specifically, was not mainstream.” A Conservative rabbi-in-training responds to Elliot Jager, and to his peers.
Moravian Morals for MontrealFriday, August 31, 2012 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When Montreal police entered the home of Amir Khadir, a member of Quebec’s parliament, they found a curiously revealing objet d’art: a parody of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, with Khadir, in the position of Lady Liberty, standing triumphantly over the corpse of Quebec premier Jean Charest.
Israel has lots of sun and the best of solar technology. But just try getting the government’s go-ahead for a solar energy project.Talmudic Stories, with Ruth Calderon
Friday, August 31, 2012 by Steve Paulson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Woven into the Talmud’s legal arguments are “miniature stories,” written by Babylonian rabbis, that leaven the debate with human texture.