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DisabilitiesTuesday, June 29, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Today is 17 Tammuz, a traditional fast day commemorating the last phase of the Babylonian and Roman sieges against ancient Jerusalem. In recent years, thanks to an organization of young religious activists, it has also become a day of reflection on ethical questions in Israeli society. This year's question, the focus of a conference in Jerusalem, concerns the integration of people with disabilities into the normal life of the community.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What I learned at the headquarters of the extremist group that sponsored the Mavi Marmara.An Illuminating Experience
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A private collection of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, on exhibit in New York, is a dazzling introduction to the Jewish art of visual commentary.The Rise of Raed Salah
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Yaakov Lappin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pushing aside Israel's secular Arab leadership, an incendiary Galilee-based Islamist is inculcating a new generation to reject the legitimacy of the Jewish state.Lying about Pictures
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Clint Talbott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Photographs of Nazi atrocities in the former Soviet Union were made to serve many state purposes; seldom, if ever, were the victims identified as Jews.
ConstitutionsMonday, June 28, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the issues brought to the fore by the recent crisis in Israel over ultra-Orthodox (haredi) schools is the unresolved role of the state's judiciary. Israel has no written constitution. To some, the absence invites disaster. To others, it is what holds Israel together as a Jewish and democratic state.
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Noah Feldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
America's founding elite put into action an ideal of meritocracy that ended its own exclusive privilege.Something’s Rotten In Brussels
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An EU proposal to re-label kosher meat smacks of common prejudice.Progressive? Then Don’t Boycott Israel
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Ben S. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Western Left is championing a movement whose aim is not to effect a change in policy but to dismantle the Jewish state.In Praise of Jewish Books
Monday, June 28, 2010 by Simon Holloway | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite its complexity, self-referentiality, and esotericism, Jewish literature is not the property of academics, the learned, or the devout. But can it survive the age of the iPad?