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Durban III: No, But . . .?Friday, June 3, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Washington's decision to pull out of the UN's upcoming reprise of the anti-Israel Durban I and II is a welcome move; but the Durban illness runs deep, and now comes the hard part.Beyond Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's denominations look very different from yesterday's, but the synagogue remains the most significant institution in American Jewish lifeHow Do You Pronounce That?
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hebrew vowels sounded one way in Lithuania, another in Poland, a third in northern Germany, a fourth in France, England, and North America. Guess which one prevailed.Laid-Back Israel
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A scientific study has concluded that a certain highly threatened society on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean comports itself, improbably enough, like a Mediterranean society.
Jews and CapitalismFriday, June 3, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Why are so many Jews discomfited by capitalism—and not merely by the caricature of capitalism as rapacious speculation and exploitative profiteering but by the very idea of organizing an economy along free-market lines?
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An 1887 complaint in the London Jewish Chronicle about the "theatricality" of American Reform ordinations draws a rebuke and a put-down by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.
We Were the FutureThursday, June 2, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few uniquely Israeli institutions have ever held the world's imagination like the kibbutz: a radical Jewish experiment in communal living, social justice, economic egalitarianism, and the reorganization of family life. Indeed, perhaps the most radical innovation of all was the "children's house" (beit y'ladim).
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fouad Ajami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish statehood was furthered by the UN vote in 1947, but the Zionist project had already prevailed; the Palestinian national movement is a different story altogether.Young Rabbis and Israel
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
That some rabbinical students (and their elders) are turning against the Jewish state is a deeply distressing fact; the question is why.The Persistence of Hate
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Ray Fisman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are anti-Semitic attitudes transmitted across not only generations but centuries? According to a comparative study of two German communities, the answer may be yes.