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What has Interfaith Activity Wrought?Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Yitzchok Adlerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christian voices supporting Israel—both conservative and liberal—show the sharp divide between authentic Christian conscience and the spinelessness of vast parts of Christian leadership.Not Too Busy to Hate
Monday, August 29, 2011 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is naive to think that Egyptians—or the Arab world writ large—will accept the presence of a Jewish state in their midst any time soon, if ever.
The Jewish Samuel Menashe
The poet Samuel Menashe, who died on August 22 at the age of eighty-five, grew up in Queens, New York. His poems have always been appreciated by other poets; but, until late in his life, his poetry did not receive the attention it deserved.
Rick Perry: Good for the Jews?Monday, August 29, 2011 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The poet Samuel Menashe, who died on August 22 at the age of eighty-five, grew up in Queens, New York. His poems have always been appreciated by other poets; but, until late in his life, his poetry did not receive the attention it deserved.
Monday, August 29, 2011 by William Kristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yes, says the editor of the Weekly Standard, half tongue-in-cheek; no, and Jews shouldn't vote for him, says a blogger for the Washington Post.Singing “Their” Tunes
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the halakhic permissibility of, among other things, non-Jewish rituals and music in Jewish worship.Céline the Inescapable
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A permanent and, by some, celebrated presence on the French literary landscape, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) incarnates for many others the epitome of rabid anti-Semitic bigotry.These Sacred Dead
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Adam Chandler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tucked away in hidden corners of Manhattan are some of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the United States.Fiction Prediction
Friday, August 26, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the leading practitioners of experimental fiction, not a single Jewish name can be counted—a trend anticipated by Cynthia Ozick in 1970.Charity Begins Where?
Friday, August 26, 2011 by Joel Braunold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Israel, it's easier for charities to go abroad to raise money than it is for them to turn to the state's new wealthy class. Initials SG
Friday, August 26, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the heart of the new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the Jewish identity of the pop provocateur.