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The Bible: Rated R
Friday, January 22, 2010 by Gary A. Anderson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A scholar reviews R. Crumb's best-selling The Book of Genesis Illustrated.
The Long Arm of Tehran?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An attack on visiting Israeli diplomats in Jordan bears signs of Iranian involvement.
The Shame of Greece
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Andrew Apostolou | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A society contaminated by a legacy of anti-Semitism and indifference toward anti-Semitism.
A Heritage Up for Grabs?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A mini-flap over ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls is but a skirmish in a larger battle over who owns, and can best protect, physical evidence of the Jewish past.
New Voice for Zionism
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Suissa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On a rainy night, a visitor from Ein Prat electrifies an audience of 100 young Los Angeles professionals.
Blockading the Truth
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Anav Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

No wonder the Gaza Freedom March featured so few Palestinians; in Gaza, they have no freedom.
Useful Idiots
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On a student vote to twin the world-renowned London School of Economics with the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza.
Whose Holocaust?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For much of Europe, January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day; the question is what is being remembered, by whom, and for what purpose.
Whose Torah?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a new book, a rabbi and a Catholic theologian collaborate to strip Judaism of its distinctively Jewish elements, and then to Christianize what remains.
The Tao of a Tel Avivian
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Maya Sela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On the death of a scholar, editor, and publisher who celebrated Eastern religion, Western learning, and the first modern Hebrew city.