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National AnthemThursday, March 29, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel wouldn't have to abandon "Hatikvah" to have an anthem which Muslim and Christian citizens would be proud to sing: just restore some of Naphtali Herz Imber's original lyrics.J Street: A Dead End?
Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Jennifer Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With minimal—and falling—support in the U.S. coupled with complete divergence from Israeli public opinion, J Street looks irrelevant. But it may yet find an audience in the White House.
Art against HistoryThursday, March 29, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Antiquity washes away the immediacy of historical pain and injustice. Our ability to feel suffering is indexed directly to its epoch: the more remote, the more detached we are. Museums play on this—pander to this—and to our forgetfulness. History is softened, elided, or erased.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Helen Chernikoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As secular universities offer kosher food and religious students opt for more traditional—and cheaper—colleges, Yeshiva University risks losing not only its market share, but its raison d'etre.Wingate’s War
Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the British military establishment in Mandate Palestine, Orde Wingate's disdain for uniform—indeed for clothes in general—was highly unorthodox. Small wonder, then, that he also supported the Haganah.The Betrayal of Liberalism
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Hilton Kramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A chastened American liberalism meets the ‘60s counterculture, in this essay by the critic and founder of the New Criterion who died yesterday at the age of eighty-four. (1998)Beinart and Bad Faith
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Crisis of Zionism is not a work of political analysis. It is an act of moral solipsism. It shows no understanding that the essence of statesmanship is the weighing of various unpalatable alternatives.
French LessonsWednesday, March 28, 2012 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The saga that captured headlines around the world last week came to an end when Mohamed Merah—who had murdered four people, including three children, at the Ozer Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, France—was shot dead by French police. Before his death, Merah told police negotiators that he was a member of al-Qaeda.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No fooling: On April 1, 1906, The New-York Tribune published a long article about the "Jewish boys who risk health by long study in foul rooms"—including the heder that would become Yeshiva University. Darwin and the Rabbis
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Michael Kay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
We're told that "religion" and "science" went head to head over evolution. But nineteenth-century rabbis, including Samson Raphael Hirsch, Hermann Adler, and Abraham Isaac Kook, were all willing to engage with Darwinism.