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A Man for a Few SeasonsTuesday, July 6, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recovering Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935), a distinguished French-Jewish scholar, president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, staunch assimilationist, shortsighted opponent of Zionism.Friends of Zion
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews did the heavy lifting, but the contribution of gentiles to the rise of the Jewish state was strategically crucial.The Binational Fantasy
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One has to be blind, ignorant, thoroughly insensitive, or all three to think that Jews and Palestinians could maintain a democratic life after being thrown into a single political cauldron.The Rothschilds of the East?
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Richard I. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a recently closed Paris exhibition: the munificent artistic legacy of a family whose career began in Istanbul in the late 18th century and ended at Auschwitz.Customs and Ceremonies
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a massive 18th-century book that illustrated the diverse religious lives, and the underlying common humanity, of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, native Americans, and Jews.Sisera Was Here
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is a round, 3,200-year-old bronze tablet part of a linchpin from the Canaanite general's war chariot?
Retrieving American Jewish Fiction: Myron BrinigFriday, July 2, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"For Jews," the historian Jerry Z. Muller said recently, "Jewish economic success has long been a source of both pride and embarrassment." Very few Jewish writers have risen to even this level of ambivalence. The ground note of Jewish fiction has been hostility to business—the prooftext is The Rise of David Levinsky—and the story of Jewish success in establishing banks, department stores, and clothing lines has fallen to strangers (including anti-Semites) to tell.
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Walter Laqueur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How far will European societies go in accommodating a fast-growing minority that to a considerable extent is opposed to them?
TypographyThursday, July 1, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the Book of Genesis, the Hebrew language is the very stuff of creation. The Talmud tells us (Menahot 29b) that Rabbi Akiva would derive new laws from the "crowns" of Hebrew letters. In the Kabbalah, the shape of the letters is said to reflect the shape of God's own inner being. What type of type can do justice to any of this?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.