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The Night of the Murdered PoetsTuesday, August 16, 2011 by Nahma Sandrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On August 12, 1952, thirteen major Soviet Jewish figures were executed for espionage, bourgeois nationalism, "lack of true Soviet spirit," and treason, including a plot to hand the Crimea over to American and Zionist imperialists.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 by Rivkah Fishman-Duker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new Hebrew-language book, the journalist Amnon Lord recounts history through the career of Uri Avnery, octogenarian anti-Zionist activist, faithful follower of the Soviet line, icon of the Israeli Left.Democracy in the (Tel Aviv) Streets
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A protest movement spawned, ironically, by Israel's economic success may do some good—if the Left can be prevented from hijacking it.Evolutionary Torah
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A team of scholars has been laboring for a half-century to produce a comprehensive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible; so far, three books have appeared.Returning Home
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Michele Chabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With economic progress and relative quiet on the West Bank, the mass exodus of Palestinian Christians has slowed; some are coming back.Groupthink and the Sanhedrin
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Patricia Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did the decision-making practices of the ancient Jewish legislative body anticipate modern wisdom on averting conformism and encouraging dissent?Fiddles of Hope
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Noah Klieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Tel Aviv restorer specializes in violins that survived the Holocaust; at Auschwitz recently, Shlomo Mintz played one of them for visiting IDF cadets and officers.
Israel and the AntipodesMonday, August 15, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, a boulder smashed into a car, killing 23-year-old Israeli Ofer Mizrahi. The death toll from that earthquake was 181, including two Israelis besides Mizrahi.
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Never until now has an American President made an issue of home-building in Jewish neighborhoods established in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war and the city's reunification.Telling It Like It Wasn’t
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Twenty years after the notorious anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a former New York Times reporter relates how his paper stubbornly persisted in mischaracterizing the events as a "racial clash."