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Kabbalah and its DiscontentsFriday, August 6, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Aside from a small circle of students and admirers, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag was an unknown figure at his death in 1954. Today, religious schools and New Age "educational centers" around the world are actively spreading his ideas, and his writings are being analyzed by professors and graduate students. After spending an hour in the rabbi's stone mausoleum, the pop-diva Madonna emerged with tears in her eyes. Who was this person to whom scores of pious (and impious) Jews and non-Jews are turning for inspiration?
Thursday, August 5, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Twenty-eight countries have come under assault from UK-based Islamist terrorists. Should governments adjust their immigration procedures accordingly?
The New Shimon PeresThursday, August 5, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Marking his eighty-seventh birthday this week, Israel's president flew to Cairo for a two-hour meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, captured headlines in Britain for his frank talk about British attitudes toward Jews and Zionism, visited bereaved military families, and welcomed new North American immigrants at Ben-Gurion airport. Perceived not so long ago as among Israel's most polarizing and untrustworthy figures, Shimon Peres nowadays enjoys unprecedented status. A politician who once mercilessly undermined prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin stands loyally behind Benjamin Netanyahu while speaking publicly as an above-the-fray statesman.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Media reports of Tuesday's deadly ambush of Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border exemplify the instinct to blame Israel first; belatedly, some have corrected the record.At the Pity Café
Thursday, August 5, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book explores the Yiddish café culture of Weimar-era Berlin.A Layup in Jerusalem
Thursday, August 5, 2010 by Joshua Mitnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Considering himself "spiritually and culturally" Jewish, the African-American basketball star Amar'e Stoudemire has traveled to Israel to explore his roots.Interfaith Nuptials
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
However irrelevant theology may have become to growing numbers of Americans, Judaism and Christianity cannot easily be blended like eggs and oil into a religious mayonnaise.Obama’s Arabia
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by David Keyes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is the President pushing a huge arms deal with a regime that tramples on human rights and shouldn't be trusted with a toothpick?Bearing Witness
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A reissued novel by the centenarian Hans Keilson delves into the moral disorientation of a Jew in a society suddenly gone sick with anti-Semitism.Still Wandering
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Derek Kravitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over its 134 years, the metamorphoses undergone by Washington, D.C.'s first synagogue have included being torn from its foundation and moved, inch by inch.