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Noam Gershony’s Incredible GoldSunday, December 16, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Mossad’s Mistake
Sunday, December 16, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Swords Into Plowshares
Friday, December 14, 2012 by Jonathan Greenstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The owner of a Judaica auction house presents striking hanukkiot from Europe and India. There is also one from Israel, made from a rifle stock and dedicated by Yitzhak Rabin.
Warfare on Shabbat: The Legacy of the Maccabees
Ezra and Nehemiah were so successful in instilling Shabbat observance that Jews refused to take up arms on Shabbat to defend themselves—with disastrous results.
MagnitizdatFriday, December 14, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ezra and Nehemiah were so successful in instilling Shabbat observance that Jews refused to take up arms on Shabbat to defend themselves—with disastrous results.
Friday, December 14, 2012 by Sophie Pinkham | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The samizdat literature that helped undermine the Soviet Union had a musical counterpart: bootlegged prison songs from the gulag, some mythologizing the Jewish gangsters of Odessa.More from the Start-up Nation
Friday, December 14, 2012 by Karin Kloosterman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
We need disease-resistant plants, but genetically modifying them is dangerous. Now, an Israeli biotech company has a treatment that protects plants while leaving them genetically intact.Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Friday, December 14, 2012 by Robert Kuttner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Refugee scholar and political economist Albert Hirschman, who died this week, taught that consumers must do more than vote with their feet if they want a civil society.Hanukkah Stats
Friday, December 14, 2012 by Ran Abramitzky, Liran Einav, and Oren Rigbi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It had to happen: economists have subjected Hanukkah to regression analysis to determine whether or not the holiday is simply a Jewish Christmas. (2009)