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By Faith AloneFriday, August 12, 2011 by Israel Drazin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The late Rabbi Yehuda Amital was an influential Israeli educator, instrumental in integrating yeshiva study with military service, and an opponent of rabbis' setting public policy.Southern Belle
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, the birthplace of Reform Judaism in North America, about to experience a resurgence of Jewish residents and to become again a center of American Jewish life?
The Challenge of EilatFriday, August 12, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a country where the sky is mostly blue, the southernmost city of Eilat has nonetheless laid claim—with justification—to being Israel's sun capital. Reliably good weather does not, however, solve all problems.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joseph Mengele's post-Holocaust diaries, recently auctioned off and feared to have fallen into neo-Nazi hands, were actually bought by a son of survivors ready to loan them to Yad Vashem.Why Study Talmud?
Thursday, August 11, 2011 by Richard Hidary | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An important question, to which a collection of entertaining personal testimonies by contemporary talmudists repeatedly yields a common answer: for the joy of it.Bound by Basketball
Thursday, August 11, 2011 by Michael Vitez | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the close relationship between an aspiring Modern Orthodox rabbi and an NBA rookie.
The New Enemies of CircumcisionThursday, August 11, 2011 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the practices that have characterized the Jewish people over the millennia, surely none has been observed more widely, or more faithfully, than circumcision.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new global survey shows increasing hostility to religious practice–with Jews, at less than one percent of the globe's population, experiencing restrictions or harassment in 75 countries.The Mendelssohn Enigma
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 by Jerome E. Copulsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Moses Mendelssohn's public image as the model of the cultured humanitarian Jew was arguably more important than his depiction of Judaism, which found few takers.The Odessa Myth
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 by Alexander Peter d'Erizans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
All serious historical inquiry speaks against the existence of a worldwide secretive escape outfit of leading SS and Gestapo members attempting to establish a "Fourth Reich" in Argentina.