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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.
Monday, April 16, 2012 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The cultural gulf between Israel and the Diaspora can be bridged—but only if American Jews decide they want to bridge it.The Titanic‘s Kosher Meal
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Marshall Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The availability of kosher food on the Titanic sheds light on England's role as a transit point for Eastern European Jews on the way to America.Altarcation
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Dror Eydar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Adam Zertal's sensational discovery of "Joshua's altar" should have created a paradigm shift in archeology—that is, if anyone had believed him.Couched Wisdom
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Tom Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews are more likely to seek out therapy and believe in its efficacy than are other Americans.
Poison PenMonday, April 16, 2012 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Nobel Prize-winning German novelist—a former SS soldier, no less—accuses the state of Israel of seeking to exterminate an entire people, and the literary republic yawns. But when Israel bars its accuser from entering the country, because ex-Nazis have no place in the Jewish state, the cries of "bullying" and "censorship" nearly drown out the original accusation.
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By reading the New Testament in its historical contexts, Jews can better comprehend not only Christianity's polemics, but its point of departure from Judaism.“We have a long list”
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Harriet Strachstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Shiddukh Crisis, ca. 1934.And Justice for All
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Shmuly Yanklowitz's writing is uneven and his scholarship is suspect, his activist agenda is built on classical Judaism.The Carp in the Bathtub
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Alan Deutschman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Brooklyn of the writer's youth, they didn't know from ahi tuna, but carp made good pets—and great gefilte fish, too.
