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B’haalot’kha: Missing MiriamThursday, May 23, 2013 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Miriam—and how surprisingly little we know about her. (Click here for source sheet.) Download
The Riddle of the SatmarThursday, May 23, 2013 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In this review of an adulatory biography of the Satmar rebbe, first published February 17, 2011, Allan Nadler considers Judaism's most traditional—and most alienated—community.
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reforms to Israel's religious bureaucracy, announced this week, will force rabbis to compete for clients.Iran and the Brotherhood
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran is becoming increasingly unpopular in the Arab world—except among Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.A Voice from Salonika
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Nina Caputo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 19th-century Ladino memoir, published last year, depicts Salonikan Jews tyrannized by a despotic rabbinic ruling class that benefited from exorbitant taxes and fees.“Hitler’s Reign of Terror”
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Emily Greenhouse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1934 documentary of Nazi oppression might have galvanized America against Hitler; but under pressure from Germany, the film was banned.
Good Girl Gone BadWednesday, May 22, 2013 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the highlights from our archives is this reflection on Herman Wouk's "plucky, unlucky" heroine Marjorie Morningstar by former editor Margot Lurie, first published October 18, 2010.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Boruch Spiegel, who was one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, escaped the Nazis via the sewers, only to return to the city to fight with Polish partisans a year later.Israel’s Interests in Syria
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by Efraim Inbar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Israel would be better served by having a failed state next door than by having a strong, Iranian-backed entity there."