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“Herr Professor-Doktor” Nikolaus PevsnerFriday, May 28, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The author of a monumental, multi-volume survey of British architecture was born a Jew, converted to Christianity, and in the early 1930's sympathized with aspects of Nazism.Lifeline
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On display in Jerusalem are the young Avigdor Arikha's illustrations to a story by S.Y. Agnon in one the most beautiful Hebrew books ever published.Mormons for Israel
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Mark Paredes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The church has a record, often forgotten today, of continuous support for the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
It’s MagicThursday, May 27, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Spirituality," a key phrase of our time, suggests a yearning for contact with an ungraspable realm beyond earthly experience. Yet for most of history, the spiritual realm was deemed eminently graspable indeed—as is evidenced by a fascinating exhibit now in Jerusalem.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by H. Varulkar and N. Mozes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Damascus, with the acquiescence of the Arab world, is once again the suzerain over Lebanon.Aryans of the World Unite?
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What, if anything, connects the words "Iran" and "Aryan" with Aryanism?Enough about Israel Already
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the wildly disproportionate obsession with the Jewish state by Western media in general and, at the moment, by Foreign Policy magazine in particular.Abraham, Inc.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Jon Kalish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Klezmer meets hip-hop as clarinetist David Krakauer teams up with trombonist Fred Wesley, Jr. (Audio.)
Measuring JewsWednesday, May 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1882, there were 24,000 Jews in the land of Israel, a tenth as many as in the United States at the time and a mere 0.3 percent of the world Jewish population. Today, a decade into the 21st century, Israel is solidifying its place as the cultural and demographic hub of Jewish life. Out of 13 million Jews worldwide, 5.7 million live in Israel, as opposed to an estimated 5.5 million in the U.S. Roughly 60 percent of Jewish Israelis are now native-born; fifty years ago, the same percentage was foreign-born. Despite an average monthly wage of but $2,100.00, most...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tariq Ramadan is only the latest in a long line of extremists whom Western governments have myopically tried to co-opt.