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Fanatics Have No FunThursday, July 1, 2010 by Asef Bayat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)From Ally to Enemy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Michael Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Turkey, the only successful Muslim country in the Middle East, is today an Islamic republic in all but name.Call it Fascism
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Richard Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gaza is a brutal place with a totalitarian government steeped in a cult of violence and death. Why does it receive support from "useful idiots" in the West?The Politics of Babel
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the very core of the Hebrew Bible lies an insistence on the centrality of the ethnic-cultural state.Doubting the Divine
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The dilemma of liberal Judaism, a new anthology suggests, is that its theologians can barely mouth the word "God" without a blizzard of qualifications.Archaeological Politics
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Only in Israel are politically motivated critics permitted to obstruct even the most impeccably conducted digs.Inside the IHH
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What I learned at the headquarters of the extremist group that sponsored the Mavi Marmara.An Illuminating Experience
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A private collection of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, on exhibit in New York, is a dazzling introduction to the Jewish art of visual commentary.The Rise of Raed Salah
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Yaakov Lappin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pushing aside Israel's secular Arab leadership, an incendiary Galilee-based Islamist is inculcating a new generation to reject the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

