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Doing Social JusticeWednesday, July 18, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some years ago, when I was helping the daughter of friends prepare for her bat mitzvah, we got to talking about her ‘‘bat mitzvah project.’’ She confided that while her parents wanted her to do something Jewish, she wanted to do something related to social justice. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Deborah E. Lipstadt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To the Olympic Committee, Jewish blood is cheap, too cheap to risk upsetting a bloc of Arab nations and other countries that oppose Israel and its policies.Sabbath in Space, Communion on the Moon
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Rebecca J. Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is our secular endeavor of space exploration flush with religious observance?The Suicide Israel Forgot
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Lily Galili | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the leaders of Israel’s social protests turn Moshe Silman, who tried to burn himself alive, into a poster boy, few recall Yelena Businov, whose self-immolation was a response to the withdrawal from Gaza. (2005)The Prophetic Voice
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The prophets were the first people to see time as the arena in which the great drama between God and humanity was played out, especially in the history of Israel.Borges, a Jew?
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Ilan Stavans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“In a typewriter in the hotel room where his body is found is a note: ‘The first letter of the Name has been written.’”
