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Menachem Begin: A New LifeFriday, May 3, 2013 by Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ensuring that another Holocaust would never take place was Menachem Begin's paramount concern, even when he was Prime Minister of Israel, pursuing Yasir Arafat in his Beirut bunker.
Friday, May 3, 2013 by Karl Vick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
High-quality oil shale under exploration south of Jerusalem, coupled with offshore gas reserves already under development, could turn Israel into an energy giant.On Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
Friday, May 3, 2013 by Alan Jotkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the halakhic prohibition on homosexual relations remains, several Orthodox rabbis have advocated the communal acceptance of individual homosexuals. But can the same be done with same-sex families?Unmasking Anti-Semitism
Friday, May 3, 2013 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"It is not because they are 'good Christians' that the Europeans are instinctively anti-Semites," wrote Zionist leader Harry Sacher. "It is because they are bad Christians, in reality repressed pagans."The Ancient Library of Alexandria
Friday, May 3, 2013 by J. Harold Ellens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"The scholarly culture of the ancient library became the seedbed of the great philosophies of Judaism and Christianity and thus has continued to influence Western culture for two millennia."Ordinary Jews
Friday, May 3, 2013 by Michael Berkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new translation of Yehoshue Perle's 1935 novel Yidn fun a gants yor offers "a vivid portrait of the shtetl before the Holocaust."
