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Gut ShabbesWednesday, July 14, 2010 by Harvey Pekar and Tara Seibel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A final comic from the late author of American Splendor.Uphill Struggle
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who are the moderate Muslims, and how can they compete with the Islamists? A Q&A with Zeyno Baran.Devarim: Untimely Farewell
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Standing in the desert of Moav, poised to send the Israelites into the Promised Land without his own titanic presence to lead the way, Moses begins his last and greatest speech.A Star Reborn
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Marissa Brostoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Moishe Oysher, a mid-century celebrity cantor and Yiddish movie star, is enjoying an unexpected second act.The Rabbi and the Rabba
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Abigail Pogrebin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Was the ordination of the first woman in American Orthodox Judaism a religious move, or a political one?
“A Simple Jew”Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last Friday, several thousand people gathered in Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Yehuda Amital, an extraordinarily complex figure whose journey took him from prewar Hungary, via the Holocaust and the 1948 War of Independence, to the elite of the rabbinic world, the heart of Israel's military, the hilltops of Judea, and eventually the Israeli cabinet. Throughout, the yeshiva he founded and led, and the ideal of Torah study it embodied, were central to his life and teaching.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Donald Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Faced with virulent Muslim anti-Semitism, many Swedish Jews have been forced to abandon their city.Participatory Absolutism
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Ernest Sternberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new dogmatic ideology is on the rise; it has global scope, and it aims to purify the world by eliminating humanity's enemies--like, for instance, Zionism and the state of Israel. (PDF)In an Ancient Hand
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A tiny clay fragment dating back to the 14th century B.C.E. is believed to be the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem.Torah Flora
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Aliza Donath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From sage to sea holly, an ethnobotanist gives a tour of plants and their Jewish connections.