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Defending the FaithFriday, January 18, 2013 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Great Partnership, Jonathan Sacks' new book on the relationship between science and religion, is a moving expression of his own faith. But does it lack intellectual honesty?Polling the Palestinians
Friday, January 18, 2013 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over half of Palestinians would oppose a two-state solution, even if Israel withdrew from 97% of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a recent opinion poll.When Community Is Not Enough
Friday, January 18, 2013 by Peter Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Religion offers something much more central than community in the abstract: It offers a community gathered around the message that... nothingness is not the final destiny of the universe."Mao’s Jewish Lieutenant
Friday, January 18, 2013 by Jonathan Margolis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Revered in China as a communist founder, Sidney Rittenberg rose to be a Red Guard leader in the Cultural Revolution, in which millions died. Now he is a successful businessman in Arizona.The Leftist Alternative
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Netanyahu looks certain to lead Israel's next government, he favors a new coalition with the center-Left. But that prospect may hinge on the electoral success of Am Shalem. The Wrong Sort of Austrian
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Austin Petersen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ron Paul's accolytes idealize liberty, and treat Jewish economists, like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, as figureheads. So, what attracts neo-Nazis to his cause?Losing Faith In America
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Peter Schotten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Religion, society’s bedrock, is slowly but surely being eroded by the popular culture the Founders hoped it would support."Lions of Israel
65 years ago this month, 35 Haganah soldiers died trying to bring supplies to kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc. A new documentary tells their story from eyewitness accounts. (Video)In Hemingway’s Shadow
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Heather McRobie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although recently overshadowed by her husband, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn was an esteemed writer in her own right—and an important Holocaust novelist.Israel’s Unrepresented Anglos
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 by Jonathan Gimpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unlike other minority communities in Israel, the Anglos are not united as an interest group. But they are united in their ideals—as the rise of Jewish Home testifies.

