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Halakhah for AmericansFriday, March 18, 2011 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Asked in a 1975 New York Times interview how he had acquired his standing as America's most trusted authority in Jewish religious law (halakhah), Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986) replied: ''If people see that one answer is good and another answer is good, gradually you will be accepted."
Friday, March 18, 2011 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran's recent attempt to ship arms to Hamas in Gaza is an act that fully justifies an Israeli armed response.A Life on the Yiddish Stage
Friday, March 18, 2011 by Itzik Gottesman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A look back at the continent-spanning career of Shifra Lerer, the recently deceased actress and comedienne. (With three-part video interview)A Mask for Janus
Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Guy Bechor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yasir Arafat's two-faced game involved diplomacy on the one hand, terror on the other; Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad's game is more refined, and more dangerous.Witness to History
Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Martin H. Kley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American arrived in Berlin in 1932 intending to study German labor unions; he ended up keeping a diary of the Nazi takeover.J Street and the President
Thursday, March 17, 2011 by William Kristol | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Has Obama's favorite Middle East lobby finally dropped its "pro-Israel" mask?What’s Inside
Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Ruth Abusch-Magder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hidden identities are the very essence of Purim, and the holiday's foods, from hamentaschen to surprise fillings in bread and meatballs, reinforce the message.Coins of the Land
Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Shula Kopf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A monumental numismatic history from ancient Judea to present-day Israel has been written, in Mandarin, by the head chef at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
Toward a Pluralistic Middle East?Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As the Middle East lurches through the present confusion of civil war, revolution, and mass protest, decent people everywhere wonder about the chances of a more pluralistic and democratic order emerging. One way of measuring progress in that direction will be to track the treatment of minorities like the Berbers and the Jews.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Kyle Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On March 14, UN members were treated to a spurious film vision of the Israel-Palestinian conflict in which all evils—including the record of Palestinian violence—are Israel's fault.