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Iron ManWednesday, March 23, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A fitting antidote to Israel Apartheid Week is Vladimir Jabotinsky's magnificent novel Samson (1928), which adheres to the biblical story while giving voice to the unconquerable spirit within Zionism. The Red Beret and the Rabbis
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Religious Zionism is in urgent need of shifting away from the rabbinical and back to the political. But its encounters in that sphere have not always gone smoothly.
Three BlessingsWednesday, March 23, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Jewish prayer book (siddur) is thick with texts: blessings, thanksgivings, and petitions, instructions, theological claims, and historical memories. Some traditional texts bear especially outsized burdens. In this respect, few can rival three lines that begin "Blessed are you O God, King of the Universe, Who has not made me . . . " and conclude, respectively, "a goy [Gentile]," "a slave," and "a woman."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Shmuel Moreh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1941 pogrom in Baghdad was part of the Nazis' global plan to annihilate the Jews wherever they were—including the Middle East.Mystical Pleasures
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Peter Cole | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There isn't a great deal of kabbalistic poetry, but the best of it epitomizes a potent if lesser-known aspect of Judaism. (Interview by Robyn Creswell)The Road to Itamar
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
I was there. I saw that settlement, I saw the house where that family was destroyed. I spoke to people there. The way it's been reported misses so much.Nietzsche Revisited
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the writings of the philo-Semitic (or anti-anti-Semitic) philosopher become the inspiration for the murderers of European Jews—and who, today, are his ideological counterparts?The First Woman Rabbi
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the 17th century, Asenath Barazani ran a yeshiva in Kurdistan and was addressed by her colleagues as master, rabbi, and teacher.So Israel Wasn’t the Problem?
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Rich Lowry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The last few months should have finally shattered the illusion that the Israeli-Palestinian question is the key to everything in the Middle East.
Shakespeare, Much Improved?Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Nahma Sandrow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the few things people think they know about Yiddish theater in America is that once upon a time there was a production, probably of King Lear, advertised as "translated and much improved." Joel Berkowitz's history, Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage (2002), quotes the line but never gives an attribution, which suggests that nobody ever actually said it. But someone might have.