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A Crisis with a Silver Lining?Tuesday, April 13, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The complexity of U.S.-Israel relations, which go beyond politicians and issues of the moment, leaves much room for paradox and inadvertency.All in the (Jazz) Family
Monday, April 12, 2010 by Nat Hentoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A book ten years in the making finally tells the full story of Jews and Jewish musical influences in jazz.Looking for “Rachel”
Monday, April 12, 2010 by Nirit Anderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of a suppressed 1960 film and its director lights up some all but forgotten corners of early Israeli culture.“Yeshiva Boys”
Monday, April 12, 2010 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The long title poem of David Lehman's new collection is a hallmark of a varied literary career, and a stunning achievement.
Leo BaeckMonday, April 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Jewish leadership" is a phrase whose meaningful content seems to grow paler with each new workshop aimed at cultivating it. ("Where are the Jewish followers?" quipped the late Arthur Hertzberg.) Since Moses, however, one true test of leadership has been the willingness to share the worst fate of one's followers. Such a leader was Leo Baeck. Born in 1873, the son of a traditional rabbi, Baeck studied at the Conservative seminary in Breslau before moving in 1894 to Berlin, where he studied with the philosopher and sociologist Wilhelm Dilthey and was ordained by the Reform-oriented Hochschule. His career reflected the mix...
Monday, April 12, 2010 by Ray Takeyh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Weakening the U.S. relationship with Israel will not advance but harm any opportunity of de-clawing Iran.A New Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monday, April 12, 2010 by Lauren Green | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a forthcoming biography, the Lutheran pastor hanged by Hitler emerges as not only a resister but a war hero.
Holocaust Remembrance DayFriday, April 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
David Weiss Halivni sits in the National Library in Jerusalem working, as he has done for decades, on his multivolume commentary to the Talmud. His lifelong immersion in the Talmud began in his hometown of Sighet, in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1944, at age seventeen, he was sent with his family to Auschwitz and a series of labor camps, and emerged a lone survivor. After the war he made his way to New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, quickly establishing himself as one of the premier Talmud scholars of the age. Like most academic talmudists, Halivni approaches the text with a deep...
Friday, April 9, 2010 by Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With Western largesse, Palestinians maintain two separate governments, two prime ministers, and two police forces—and two wholly controlled media, neither of which tells the truth.The Jew in the Phone
Friday, April 9, 2010 by Mark Mietkiewicz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From a complete prayer book to a guide to kosher fish, an application exists for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.