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Matisyahu Made Me CryMonday, July 26, 2010 by Hampton Stevens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hasidic reggae reduces a critic to tears.The Kindness of (Israeli) Strangers
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arabs are rightly known for hospitality, but Israelis, contrary to their bluff stereotype, are no slouches.
The Conversion ConundrumMonday, July 26, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Late last week, narrowly averting a looming crisis within world Jewry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a postponement, possibly indefinite, of prospective Knesset legislation making the Chief Rabbinate the arbiter of conversion in the Jewish state and thus of who may be eligible for citizenship under Israel's foundational Law of Return. The measure has stirred impassioned debate in and between Israel and the Diaspora, much of it a depressing if also revealing exercise in talking past each other.
Monday, July 26, 2010 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The German jurist appointed to follow up on the Goldstone Report worked for the PLO in the 1990's and has condemned Israeli targeted killings as "very much" in the direction of state terrorism.Whatever Happened to Middle East Cosmopolitanism?
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Sami Zubaida | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Obliterated by sectarianism, fanaticism, and Third Worldism, an older and more hopeful form of Arab-Muslim political life survives today only in memory.He Who Saves One Life
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Monika Scislowska | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How a Polish Catholic inmate of Auschwitz, dressed as an SS guard, rescued his Jewish sweetheart.Judaism, Da
Friday, July 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some two decades after the last big wave of Soviet immigration, young Russian-speaking Israelis have gathered in Jerusalem for an intensive three-day program of Jewish study.The Egyptian Dilemma
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a post-Mubarak world, will the Obama White House opt for regime stability, or for reform and change? As the Bush administration discovered, either way is fraught with peril.
The Lone WolfFriday, July 23, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 70th yahrzeit of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was marked on July 11, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. There was nary a mention of it in the Israeli media—an extraordinary omission given that Jabotinsky was not only a founder of the Haganah and the supreme commander of the Irgun but also a towering Zionist theoretician and leader.
Friday, July 23, 2010 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The final installment of a three-part series on the lessons contained in the murals of a 3rd-century synagogue. Click here for parts I and II.