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ShnorrersMonday, January 9, 2012 by Simon Yisrael Feuerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One dollar buys you a torrent of blessings from the elderly Russians who sit in the synagogue literally with their hands out: A gut yahr, na zdrovie, they say. Spraznikom. And those are just the regulars.
Judaism on SteroidsMonday, January 9, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ryan Braun, the reigning MVP of baseball's National League, is having a rough offseason. On December 12, ESPN reported that Braun had tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug (PED) after a league-mandated drug test revealed elevated levels of testosterone in his system.
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.Incitement and Enlightenment
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Yitzhak Laor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even the fact that ultra-Orthodox women work in professions while the men are increasingly cooking and taking care of the children isn't enough. The Left demands a single set of standards for everyone: its own.Mengele’s Skull
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If the trial of Eichmann marks the beginning of the era of the witness, the exhumation of a body thought to be that of Mengele signals the inauguration of the era of forensics in international criminal justice. Pound Foolish
Friday, January 6, 2012 by John Stoehr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Pound hailed Hitler, and Gertrude Stein cheered Franco, William Carlos Williams eschewed doctrine and orthodoxy. Herbert Leibowitz's compelling new biography of the modernist poet shows why.
The Whole Damn DealFriday, January 6, 2012 by Suzanne Garment | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 2, 1979, President Jimmy Carter recorded in his diary that he had asked Robert S. Strauss to be his Mideast peace negotiator. Strauss answered, "I've never even read the Bible. And I'm a Jew." Observance-wise, Bob Strauss, who spent 50 years as a consummate practitioner of American politics, wasn't much of a Jew.
Friday, January 6, 2012 by Patrick Clawson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tactically, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustainable system. (PDF) I Shall Be Released
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Ilan Grapel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"On June 12, two dozen state security officials barged into my hostel room, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and transported me to their general prosecutor." Reflections on a detention in Egypt.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Simon Wynberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.
