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A Meditation on Maoz ZurMonday, December 10, 2012 by Ismar Schorsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In this 1988 essay, Ismar Schorsch writes that the much maligned final stanza of Maoz Zur, which calls for divine retribution against Israel’s enemies, illustrates a distinction between redemption within history and the ultimate redemption, which must come from without.
Monday, December 10, 2012 by Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Maccabees warred against the Seleucids and their Hellenized Jewish allies. But Judaean Hellenism began earlier, under the Ptolemies—and was not so bad for the Jews.Of Rabbis and Maccabees
Monday, December 10, 2012 by Reuben Livingstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The rabbis never deny the necessity of self-defense. So, why does the Talmud’s discussion of Hanukkah downplay the military exploits of the Maccabees?Dr. Atomic
Monday, December 10, 2012 by Jon Turney | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ray Monk’s new biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” is the first to cover all aspects of his life—including his German-Jewish background.What Crisis of Zionism?
Monday, December 10, 2012 by J. J. Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For American Jews under 35, the decline in attachment to Israel seems to be reversing itself—but not the decline in trust toward Israel’s government.Not So Fast
Monday, December 10, 2012 by Alan Baker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Now that the dust has cleared after the Palestinians’ recent UN status upgrade, it is clear that they remain in no position, politically or morally, to declare statehood.
Clothes Make the ManFriday, December 7, 2012 by Chaim Saiman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent daf yomi Shabbat 63 appears to present just the technicalities of what can and cannot be transported on Shabbat. Yet it is simultaneously an exploration of war, peace, and the nature of manhood.