nice summary

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/190197/daf-yomi-123

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http://tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/187483/daf-yomi-108

great photos and amazing story.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/12/10/stacy_kranitz_and_marisha_camp_photograph_german_wwii_reenactors.html

On the Nazi sympathies of the Swedish theologian who put Sefer Hekhalot, better known as 3 Enoch, on the map:

http://mystical-politics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/hugo-odeberg-and-nazi-germany.html

N. and I's Ghost of Ramadan Future, perhaps.

http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/aus-welchem-land-kommst-du-1.18438358

Nice short piece here on the american love of the superlative. Sure, we all know we're into "awesomeness," but it's funny to hear an outsider grapple with it.http://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/usa-land-der-fettnaepfchen-

fun little piece on the reception history of one of Judaism's baddest Bad Girls. "In the domain of American pop culture, perhaps the bagel is her closest parallel" - fact or fiction? You decide.https://www.

"Jews are worrying. It is time for those who value a free, democratic, open, multicultural and enlightened society to do so, too. This is not another Holocaust, but it’s bad enough."http://www.nytimes.

Socrates turned himself into an outsider in his own city, but didn’t move to another. He became “átopos,” which meant “out of place,” but also “disturbing” and “perplexing.” Being átopos is crucial if you are to be a straight-talking philosopher, as Socrates was. There is in every community something that has to remain unsaid, unnamed, unuttered; ( Read more... )