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Address to the Graduating Jewish Cadets, West PointMonday, May 24, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
War is no joke, and radical innocence is no match for radical evil.The Crown of Aleppo
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Tamar Yellin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The history of the oldest Hebrew Bible codex reflects the history of the Jews: exile, upheaval, struggle, and rebirth.Call It Awake
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Charles McGrath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new posthumous novel has emerged out of the papers of Henry Roth, author of the 1934 American classic, Call It Sleep.Through a Canvas Darkly
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Cracking the riddle of a forged copy of a self-portrait by the 19th-century Dutch Jewish artist Jozef Israels.
Talmud for Everyone?Monday, May 24, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Later this year, a milestone in contemporary Jewish learning will be reached with the completion of the Steinsaltz translation of the Talmud from its rabbinic Hebrew-and-Aramaic original into modern Hebrew. First begun in 1965, this project has had a transforming effect on non-Orthodox Israeli culture. The work is the brainchild of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Born in 1937 to secular parents who nevertheless saw to his education in Jewish classics, he studied math, physics, chemistry, and sociology before turning to religion, publishing books on the Bible and Jewish mysticism, and creating a network of high schools offering a rare blend of Talmud,...
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A study group asks whether, with computer technology, it might become possible—or necessary, or desirable—to reconstruct the ur-text of the Torah.Chaim Grade’s Legacy
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?Ritual Art or Ritual Hype
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two events in San Francisco spark thoughts on art, fashion, and tradition.Mysteries of the Baal Shem Tov
Friday, May 21, 2010 by David Assaf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Little is known about the birth of the founder of the Hasidic movement, but much about his passing.
ArtScroll, Inc.Friday, May 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since its creation in 1976, the Orthodox publishing empire known as ArtScroll has brought out hundreds of titles: English translations of classic texts like the Bible, the siddur (prayer book), the Talmud, and others as well as self-help books, histories, biographies, fiction, and even cookbooks. All are marked by traditional scholarship, decent English, handsome and often innovative typography and graphics—and an unabashedly ultra-Orthodox (haredi) viewpoint. Advertised and marketed with acumen and zeal, ArtScroll has swept the English-speaking Orthodox world and made surprising inroads among non-Orthodox readers as well. A newly published study, Orthodox by Design, provides the first scholarly investigation of the...