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The Bible: From One-Reeler to Docu-dramaTuesday, April 23, 2013 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The History Channel's The Bible is a small epic, with editorial choices that produce predictable results. But some of this smallness yields unexpected insights.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel’s alliance between government and big business has long benefited a select few at the expense of the middle class. The current government has a chance to break the monopolies.Lessons in Intermarriage
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by John Turner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Mormon Church prohibits intermarriage, but still succeeds in welcoming and converting non-member spouses. Can Jews learn something from Mormons?Lessons in Counterterrorism
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Greg Myre | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Israelis have figured out how to live with this contradiction: Something terrible could happen at any moment and there's no reason to let fear dictate how you live."Jew in a Box
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is an exhibit at Berlin's Jewish Museum featuring a Jew sitting in a glass box, to answer visitors' questions, useful pedagogy, or "pathetic and useless"?Shalom Bollywood
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Emily Wax | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With Hindu and Muslim actresses unwilling to appear onstage, producers turned to dancers from India's tiny Jewish community—and launched Bollywood in the process.
Zionism Before HerzlMonday, April 22, 2013 by Erika Dreifus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1876, 21 years before Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress, a non-Jewish woman, writing for an English audience, published a novel with a powerful Zionist message. She went by the name of George Eliot.