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From China to YeshivahFriday, August 13, 2010 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group of yarmulke-clad young men from Kaifeng's Jewish community, now studying in Israel, seem less bothered by Orthodoxy's strictures than puzzled by its leniencies.Herman the Former Jew
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rare 12th-century Latin memoir offers a unique window into the thinking of a Jewish apostate—if it is authentic.
The Soul and the MachineThursday, August 12, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The astounding growth of the Internet, computer technology, and artificial intelligence is a commonplace of our time; so is the challenge each poses to familiar ways of commerce and culture, and even to our basic understandings of humanity. Some of the farthest reaches of these developments are expressed in the "singularity" envisioned by the futurologist Raymond Kurzweil: a dazzling world in which, by the end of this century, humans will have so thoroughly merged with fog-like nano-computers that our bodies will no longer have a fixed form and we will, at long last, wield total control over—or be wholly at the mercy of?—an utterly...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Danny Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The "Kirtan Rabbi," a/k/a Andrew Hahn, harnesses a Sanskrit call-and-response form of worship to promote what he insists is authentic Judaism. (With video)Better Fasting through Chemistry
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jerusalem researchers are testing a drug that may help Jews and Muslims on fast days.A Palestinian Right of Return?
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Ariela Ringel Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the view of two eminent experts, international law does not recognize the right of Palestinian refugees or their descendants to return to their former homes.They Have Names
Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Robert Mackey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ending a prison hunger strike in order to preserve their strength, Iranian dissidents demonstrate that the opposition, though hobbled, struggles fiercely on.
Rank RivalriesWednesday, August 11, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A bare majority of Americans know that General David Petraeus commands U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Fewer, surely, would be able to name Navy Admiral Mike Mullen as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In Israel, by contrast, the chief of the general staff of the country's defense forces is a household name—for he is the unique individual in public life who is single-mindedly focused on military security, the reassuring figure, above the political fray, to whom Israelis can look with confidence at times of threat to their national safety.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Walter Reich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Those who wish for Middle East peace must reckon with the lessons that bitter experience has taught Israelis; here are ten of them.A Life in Letters
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Yuval Saar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Zvi Narkis, who has died at eighty-nine, was one of the most significant designers of modern Hebrew typefaces, placing his stamp on everything from cheese wrappers to currency to the Jerusalem Bible.