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What Red Lines?Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Avinoam Bar-Yosef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like Bill Clinton before him, Barack Obama wants to know how much Israel is prepared to concede. He is unlikely to get further than his predecessor.What the Besht Left Behind
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the 250th anniversary of his death, the legacy of the founder of Hasidism deserves to be not only honored but celebrated.The Brandeis-Oren Flap
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A petition supporting the choice of Israel's ambassador as Brandeis commencement speaker has gathered four times as many student signers as an earlier petition to rescind the invitation.Keeper of the Flame
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Marissa Brostoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the death of the contentious widow of Chaim Grade, it may at last become possible for readers to have wider access to the works of the great Yiddish writer.
Jews and Khazars – Again, or NeverThursday, May 13, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The mass conversion to Judaism of the Khazars, a Turkic people from the North Caucaus, in the mid-8th century has fired imaginations for centuries. Medieval travelers told tantalizing stories of the Jewish kingdom beyond the mountains. In the 12th century, the great Spanish-Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi framed his philosophical masterpiece, The Kuzari, around this story. A very different use of the same story was made by racial theorists in the 19th century, by Arthur Koestler in the 20th century, and by the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand in the 21st. Asserting that Ashkenazi Jewry as a whole descended not from ancient Israel...
Shalom JapanWednesday, May 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is in Tokyo this week for meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. Lieberman is seeking more robust Japanese pressure on Iran to halt its quest for nuclear weapons. His arrival follows a visit only last month by deputy premier Dan Meridor, who is responsible for intelligence matters. Lieberman's other main goal will be strengthening the economic ties between Israel and Japan, which have blossomed since the 1993 Oslo Accords and the weakening of the Arab boycott. At $3.4 billion worth of business annually, Japan is second only to China as...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A capsule history of the June 1967 events leading up to the liberation of the Old City, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall, and the declaration of the holiday celebrated today. (With audio and video.)Jerusalem: The Scandal of Particularity
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Norman Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reflections on a city that is not only the capital of present-day Israel but the capital, as it were, of Judaism and the Jewish people.Ancient Jerusalem to Scale
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Miriam Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A stunning model of the city during the Second Temple period is on permanent outdoor exhibit at the Israel Museum.Jerusalem as She Was
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Eliyahu Porush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Vivid personal recollections of daily life in the city's Jewish community during the early 1900's. (With photos.)