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Reason Not the NeedMonday, February 21, 2011 by Robert Golbert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Heavy taxes paid to the state, presumably of benefit to all, do not preempt the Jewish obligation of tz'dakah.A Down to Earth Philosophy
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is there a coherent ideology of Jewish secularism? Perhaps, but it's not the one that the scholar David Biale sees in the work of figures from Maimonides to Tony Kushner.The Jewish Wars
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Rivkah Fishman-Duker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his 1996 book, now reissued in a second edition, Edward Alexander exposes and confronts the double standard regarding Israel and Judaism with uncommon incisiveness.
Thankless in Turtle BayFriday, February 18, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After more than six months of internal squabbling, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beitenu) have, at last, agreed to dispatch the seasoned diplomat Ron Prosor as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. But what, realistically, can any Israeli ambassador hope to achieve at the UN?
Friday, February 18, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why a much-praised novel by Nicole Krauss wasn't on my list of best Jewish books of 2010.When in Doubt, Slam Israel
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will the Obama administration vote for a UN resolution condemning Israel that it doesn't want to vote for?Blind Pity
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Brendan O'Neill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the very moment when the Palestinian issue has become less important to the Arabs, it has become of the utmost symbolic importance to the Western Left.
The Riddle of the SatmarThursday, February 17, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prospect terrifying to secular Israelis and Zionists worldwide has been the rapid growth of the Jewish state's ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Given the stranglehold of haredi political parties on recent coalition governments, and the encroachments by non-Zionist haredi clerics upon Israel's chief rabbinate, once religiously moderate and firmly Zionist, the fear is not entirely irrational.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Marianne Lavelle | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The fallout from Egypt's revolution is propelling an Israeli revolution—in renewable energy.World of our Fathers
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is patrilineal descent not catching on in Reform communities outside the U.S.?