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Irwin Isaac MeiselmanThursday, July 5, 2012 by Joseph Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“I should have said, ‘Of course I don't want to read your chapter. Why the hell would I want to do that?’ Instead I hear myself saying, ‘Sounds interesting. I'd very much like to read it.’” (Fiction)Balak: Abraham and Balaam
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Two biblical figures both saddle their own animals to get on with their task—and that's not the only thing they have in common. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:06
Freud in ZionTuesday, July 3, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Three Jewishly-conflicted German speakers changed the course of modern history. By the time the first, Karl Marx, had died in 1883, Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl were rising stars in their twenties; later, they came to be neighbors living but a few doors apart on a Vienna street.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 by Joseph Michelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“So, what is so unusual about our sojourn with America? It is, in terms of historical significance, perhaps the most beneficent, generous, and happy marriage we, as a people, have ever had!”New York’s First—and Last—Chief Rabbi
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 by Avraham Kelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 1880’s, New York’s Jewish community was lax in practice and lacking in direction. Nor did it want to change—as Yaakov Yosef discovered to his detriment.A Forgotten Hero
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 by Brad Hart | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Francis Salvador is remembered only as the first Jew to be killed in the Revolutionary War. But as a wealthy English Jew who became a patriotic American democrat, he epitomized the American dream.