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Two Rabbis, Two PhilosophiesMonday, September 10, 2012 by Daniel Treiman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the recent political conventions, Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik each spoke powerfully to the contrasting political ideologies of the parties that they were addressing.Journey
Monday, September 10, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For millennia, Jews made pilgrimages to Israel. Today, in a remarkable reversal, Jews in Israel make their spiritual journeys back to the Diaspora.Beards
Monday, September 10, 2012 by Peter Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The beard as a sacramental symbol is a visible sign of an invisible ideology. This need not be religious.Secular Meets Religious in the IDF
Monday, September 10, 2012 by Shani Boianjiu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The moment I touched the weapon, one of the soldiers got up from his chair and left.”The Yiddish Quran
Monday, September 10, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yiddish is so closely, so intimately, so inextricably linked to Judaism that there is something singularly odd about encountering it in the service of another, and in some ways anti-Jewish, religion.
The Hebrew Bible and the Human MindMonday, September 10, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Yoram Hazony has a bone to pick with Tertullian, the second-century Christian theologian who asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”
Yeshiva RevolutionFriday, September 7, 2012 by Yoel Finkelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Shaul Stampfer, one of Israel's foremost experts on Eastern European Jewry, is the most unlikely of iconoclasts. A thin, quiet, unassuming man, he gives the impression that he would have been happy as a simple melamed (elementary school teacher) in the shtetls he describes.