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A Real Titanic Love StoryWednesday, April 18, 2012 by Philip Getz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One hundred years ago today, the RMS Carpathia pulled into New York's Pier 54 carrying 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster. Most of the survivors were women and children from first class. But Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest and possibly one of the oldest women on board, was not among them.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week, Aaron gets his first chance to offer a sacrifice—but there are too many people making too many offerings. What's going on? (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:43P.O.R.K.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Leah Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Our children have suddenly become ultra-Orthodox. What do we do?" P.O.R.K. to the rescue!Face to Face
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Gavi Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One was a talmudist, the other an ontologist—yet the two figures' work reveals striking similarities. Either it was a case of plagiarism or an instance of cosmic significance.A Myth for the Misbegotten
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ten years after the Jenin massacre-that-wasn't, what has the press done to correct its fabrications, and to guard against further calumnies?
Getting HitlerTuesday, April 17, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some cataclysmic events occur with the speed of a train wreck; others unfold over months or even years. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 2007 bestseller The Black Swan argues that the more earth-shattering the event, the less likely that the press will provide an early warning.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Sohrab Ahmari and Justin D. Martin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did Israel, with its famously rowdy press and print culture, wind up second in a ranking of countries that jail the most journalists per capita? An exchange.New York’s Lost Temple
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Tom Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1865, German Jews built the largest synagogue in the United States, capable of holding 2,000 worshipers, with a breathtaking interior space rising to the equivalent of five stories. What happened to it?A Portal to Hades
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Ran Shapira | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New explorations of the Twins Cave in the Judean Hills have unearthed evidence of pagan rituals suggesting that the cave was thought to be an outlet to the underworld.Spinning the Polls
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by Mitchell Bard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Don't believe the recent surveys. Does anyone think that Obama and his rivals would spend so much time talking about Israel if they did not believe it was an issue that shaped Jews' votes?