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Conferences: Why?Thursday, July 19, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As Israelis take in the collapse of Netanyahu’s grand coalition, ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv tent protesters' lionization of an attempted suicide, it may have escaped general attention that none of these problems featured among the prophetic visions of last month’s Presidential Conference, which charged itself with “Facing Tomorrow.”
Thursday, July 19, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Every day, Rav Elyashiv woke at 2 or 3 a.m. and studied Torah for 16-20 hours—until he died yesterday at the age of 102, robbing the Haredi world of one of its foremost authorities.Rules of the Game
Thursday, July 19, 2012 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As in chess, so in halakhah: Simply knowing all the rules does not a great player make. Kadima’s Prospects, and Bibi’s
Thursday, July 19, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now that the unity government deal between Likud and Kadima has ended, where will the broad middle of the Israeli body politic go?