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Tribe of OneMonday, June 14, 2010 by Stephen Burn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a novel of manic excess, Joshua Cohen portrays a world where, even though—or because—only one Jew survives, Jewishness is all the rage.Changing the Geopolitical Game
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Gal Luft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The recent discovery of a gigantic deposit of natural gas can not only solve Israel's own energy predicament but create an export bonanza with strategic consequences.
Psychoanalysis: A Jewish Science?Friday, June 11, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How Jewish was your childhood home? To this query, Anna Freud responded: "more than people think, and less than I remember." Her quip does double duty: illustrating the porous boundaries of memory, fact, and interpretation that psychoanalysis has sought to clarify and disturb, and highlighting a question surrounding the enterprise since its inception. How Jewish is it?
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How is the Jewish state to survive?Meet the Ironic Orthodox
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On its left wing, Orthodoxy harbors a generation mixing literacy and adherence with an absurdist attitude toward traditional religious structures.Eastern Europe, Online
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Shoshana Olidort | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A multi-volume YIVO encyclopedia opens a free window onto 1,000 years of Jewish life.New in Shenkin
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Yoni Kempinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A dilapidated synagogue has been refurbished by Chabad to serve a gentrified neighborhood in the secular heart of Tel Aviv.
The RebbeThursday, June 10, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The story of Lubavitcher Hasidism in our time is nothing short of astounding. Here is an ultra-Orthodox sect, deployed all over the world, exuberantly engaged with non-observant Jews and with non-Jews, availing itself of every imaginable form of contemporary communications technology. What was, for generations, the most intellectual and scholastic-minded hasidic dynasty—its other name, Chabad, is an acronym for "Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge"—has become an ecstatic mass movement. At the heart of it all is the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), who died childless—and whom some substantial number of his followers forthrightly regard as the messiah.
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest UN Security Council sanctions are late, weak, and likely to ease Teheran's diplomatic isolation.The Enablers
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can you turn a tiger (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Ahmadinejad) into a kitten by stroking it? Those who argue yes in all cases have much blood on their hands.