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“My Negro Problem—and Ours” at 50Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Norman Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Ellison was right to excoriate me for my dismissive attitude toward black culture, and my Jewish critics were right to take offense at my questioning whether the survival of the Jewish people was worth the suffering it entailed."How Powerful Are the Chief Rabbis?
Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Haviv Rettig Gur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Foreign Policy may believe Israel's chief rabbis number among the world's 500 most powerful people, but "there are certainly more influential rabbis in the Jewish world—and even in Israel."
“They All Could Have Been Saved”Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Lance J. Sussman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus personally rescued 50 Jewish children from Nazi-era Vienna and brought them home to Philadelphia. A new documentary tells their story—and contrasts it with the apathy shown by their community.
Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Michael Segall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran already has the technological capacity to produce one nuclear bomb—it is just waiting for the right moment to "break out."Genesis’ Afterlife
Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are modern Bible commentaries more reliable than traditional interpretations—or simply founded on different methodological premises?The Nazis’ Forgotten Victims
Thursday, May 2, 2013 by Götz Aly | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
'There was no resistance to the euthanasia murders from the leftist or secular side of society. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought." (Interview by Susanne Beyer)
The Last BooksWednesday, May 1, 2013 by Jonathan Brent | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The invisible structures created by the Jewish people of Eastern Europe over a thousand years were given shape and transmitted through the books and the documents collected by YIVO. These structures still move us. If we do not know what they are, we do not know ourselves.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
What does it mean to "walk" in God's laws? (Click here for source sheet.) Download
