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Haredi Holy WarThursday, February 7, 2013 by Amir Mizroch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fearing that a new alliance between Yesh Atid and Jewish Home will see haredim drafted into the IDF, Israel's haredi rabbis are mounting a fierce campaign to protect the status quo.A Time for Torture?
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Michael J. Broyde and Jacob L. Wright | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"If we can save innocent lives by applying psychic and physical anguish to those who pose an imminent threat, then it would be morally untenable for a society to categorically exclude this as an option."Holograms of the Holocaust
The Holocaust is fading from living memory, but future generations will be able to meet Holocaust survivors face-to-face—as 3-D holograms.Smashing the Idols
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Josh Yuter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Has veneration of gedolim, great rabbis, become "the single greatest impediment to intelligent religious discourse in the Orthodox Jewish community"?When Ben-Gurion Met Jabotinsky
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by A. B. Yehoshua and David Janner-Klausner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jabotinsky: "You have turned from being a Jew to being an Eretz Yisraelite." Ben-Gurion: "That is why I see the world and judge it from the perspective of this small patch of land." (Fiction)Mishpatim: Cracking the Covenant Code
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The goring ox—to whom it belongs, and whom it gores. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:12:05
Denominational Delusions
With synagogues closing, congregations ageing, and the non-Orthodox majority dwindling, American Jews are caught in a crisis. Yet no one is tackling the root of this problem: intermarriage.
All Quiet on the Gaza Front?Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by Andrew Apostolou | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With synagogues closing, congregations ageing, and the non-Orthodox majority dwindling, American Jews are caught in a crisis. Yet no one is tackling the root of this problem: intermarriage.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by Armin Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Since Operation Pillar of Defense, Sderot has been free of rocket fire from Gaza for the first time since 2004. But it will take more than that for the town to return to normal.God Above Moves Down
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 by David Wolpe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Belief in what is above us has increasingly moved to what is within us.... God has been not only dethroned, but given a seat next to us in the bleachers."