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Who’s Afraid of the Palestinians?Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Egyptians, for one. Also, the Jordanians.Contempt of Justice
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Robin Shepherd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A bigoted verdict in Great Britain suggests that the current hysterical campaign against Israel is resulting not only in gross injustice to that democratic nation but in the undermining of democracy at home.Lonely, Lonely, Lonely is the Lord of Hosts
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Yael Goldstein Love | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a rural utopian community, the only laws are those arising out of a spirit of loving responsibility. To whom? (A short story.)
Tradition and Its DiscontentsWednesday, July 7, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Judaism teaches the unity of body and soul. The soul has received most of the ink, but in recent decades historians have made an effort to give the body its say by uncovering and interpreting the material circumstances that, together with the learning and the spirituality, have comprised the weave of Jewish life. Prominent among these historians is the Hebrew University's Shaul Stampfer, whose new book, Families, Rabbis, and Education, explores the diverse currents coursing through the nineteenth-century Jewish heartlands of Eastern Europe.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Douglas Murray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Five years ago today, three British-born Muslim suicide bombers murdered fifty-two people in London. Since then, Britain's authorities have engaged extremists, sidelined progressive Muslims, and failed to assert mainstream values.Fayyadism: Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Nathan Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Palestinian prime minister may be a good person, but whatever his Western admirers may claim, his policies are not building a Palestinian state.
The MossadTuesday, July 6, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last week, Israel successfully deployed its fourth orbiting spy satellite, hailed by the country's intelligence community as delivering better than expected surveillance of "areas of interest." At the same time, Israel's human-intelligence apparatus, essential as ever to the Jewish state's survival, has come under severe criticism for two of its recent missions: the presumed liquidation of the senior Hamas operative Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai and the ill-prepared interdiction of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla. Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities continue to sweep up reputed Israeli agents for spying on Hizballah.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Andrew Rosenkranz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under Hugo Chavez, anti-Semitism is no longer merely encouraged; now it has become official.The Curious Case of Mark Zborowski
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Steven J. Zipperstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The author of Life Is with People, a classic of shtetl nostalgia, was a Stalinist spy; how do these two facts compute?Not the Catskills
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Stacey Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The global summer community in Chautauqua, New York has become a flourishing retreat for Jewish learning and culture.